Salon.com > vatican II http://www.salon.com Mon, 20 May 2013 02:00:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 No matter what, I’m still Catholic http://www.salon.com/2013/02/12/no_matter_what_im_still_catholic/ http://www.salon.com/2013/02/12/no_matter_what_im_still_catholic/#comments Tue, 12 Feb 2013 20:40:00 +0000 http://www.origin.railrode.net/?p=13198914 When Pope Benedict announced Monday that he was stepping down from the job,  he wasn't, as one-third of Americans who were raised Catholic have already done, walking away from the church entirely. He was just giving notice on the professional side of it. But his choice, coming as it did just two days before Ash Wednesday, the beginning of the most sacred and thoughtful time in the Catholic year, seemed designed to provoke that familiar, recurring question among many of us who fill the pews on Sunday mornings: What am I still doing here? I found myself wondering yet again why I, a feminist and eternal Christopher Hitchens fangirl, in spite of everything supremely messed up and awful in the church, still call myself a Catholic.

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