{"id":9644,"date":"2015-05-05T15:59:30","date_gmt":"2015-05-05T19:59:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/?p=9644"},"modified":"2015-05-05T15:59:30","modified_gmt":"2015-05-05T19:59:30","slug":"what-does-it-mean-to-be-catholic-part-three-of-my-conversation-with-alicia-de-los-reyes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/2015\/05\/what-does-it-mean-to-be-catholic-part-three-of-my-conversation-with-alicia-de-los-reyes.html","title":{"rendered":"“What does it mean to be Catholic?”: Part three of my conversation with Alicia de los Reyes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

at Surprising Faith:<\/p>\n

Alicia:<\/strong> What do you think it means to be Catholic? Your Catholicism seems much more intellectual than mine ever was, and I considered myself a fairly committed Catholic. Does Catholicism require us to understand some\/most of it? Or is it enough to go through the sacraments and say that you believe in the Nicene Creed (even if you don\u2019t think about it all that hard)?<\/em><\/p>\n

Eve:<\/strong>\u00a0I don\u2019t really think I have much of a definition of what it means to be a Catholic, other than \u201cbaptized in the Catholic Church.\u201d The definition from Monty Python\u2019s \u201cEvery Sperm Is Sacred<\/a>\u201d has a lot of wisdom in it (as does that sketch in general, lol):<\/p>\n

You don\u2019t have to be a six-footer,<\/div>\n
You don\u2019t have to have a big brain.<\/div>\n
You don\u2019t have to have any clothes on;<\/div>\n
You\u2019re a Catholic the moment Dad came.<\/div>\n
So yeah, we have a responsibility to submit our intellects to the Church\u2019s guidance and wisdom, but that doesn\u2019t mean we are ever going to understand everything or even most things.<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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