There are lots of cultural Catholics, and this has been going on long before the issue of gay rights was being debated.
Yes - the majority of Catholics worldwide are cultural Catholics. It is becoming a semi ethnic religion, like Judaism, which has more cultural implications than religious ones.
Define "cultural Catholic".
West Central Scotland.
When the same percentage still call themselves Catholic in the census but chapels are closing, and are quarter full on high holidays with an aging congregation pushing over 80, never mind over 65, priests recruited from Poland and almost no youth activity.
That's cultural Catholicism. It's identity without performance or performance without place.
Catholicism in Scotland? And in the Lowlands? I was under the impression that the Reformation had done its work there and there were practically no Catholics left (except maybe some Highland clans), just Presbyterians and Episcopalians.
1. Wrong thread for your memes.
2. In case you are not ironic: mostly Irish immigration since the 19th century and Italian, Lithuanian, Polish immigration since the 20th century, especially in the Glasgow area (so West Central Scotland).
