Just a sweet little old nun

[WolFish]

I wonder how many rosaries she will have to pray for that or will they just have another penguin hit her across the knuckles with a ruler

ah, memories of catholic school! they had many forms of torture where i went. these days they'd all have been arrested.

  I'm surprised how many people of my age group suffered with nuns in school.  Being of the
  post-Vatican II generation, I thought things had changed everywhere.  Having been born to an older
  mother who was an old-school Catholic and a catechist to boot, I'm lucky I ended up in public school. 

My mother definitely didn't have anything good to say about them..she didn't have a father at home to speak of, and back then that was a big no-no. 

Both my parents had a shitty home life, and religion just played a part in making it more so. After they got married, they left home and religion was attending flea markets on Sunday...I was free to explore the topic or go to church stuff with my friends, as long as I left them alone about it. 

  I think my father attended Mass only out of respect for my mother, but we kids got the full Catholic
  upbringing: Mass every Sunday and holy day of obligation, starting when we were 3 or 4; catechism and
  all the sacraments; Mass attendance required long after confirmation.  I was still going to Mass when
  I was 22 and employed full-time, right up till the Sunday I moved out of my parents' house.   

I stopped going to mass at age 17 - when my parents dropped me off at college I never even looked for a church. It didn't occur to me until just now to think that I should (have).

["couldbecousin"]

  I sometimes went to Mass on campus on the weekends when I stayed there instead of going home.
  Then around my 19th birthday I began to let go of my Catholicism and stopped going to Mass on campus,
  but of course I had to go when I was at home on weekends and during the summer ... till I moved out! 

[odeon]

  I sometimes went to Mass on campus on the weekends when I stayed there instead of going home.
  Then around my 19th birthday I began to let go of my Catholicism and stopped going to Mass on campus,
  but of course I had to go when I was at home on weekends and during the summer ... till I moved out! 

Because of your parents?

["couldbecousin"]

  I sometimes went to Mass on campus on the weekends when I stayed there instead of going home.
  Then around my 19th birthday I began to let go of my Catholicism and stopped going to Mass on campus,
  but of course I had to go when I was at home on weekends and during the summer ... till I moved out! 

Because of your parents?

  Yes.  I went to Mass because my mother required it, and I moved out because I wanted freedom! 

[Parts]

I went till I was confirmed and while I lived at my grandmothers house.  After I got a car I would just go out for a drive and come back when mass was over  

["couldbecousin"]

I went till I was confirmed and while I lived at my grandmothers house.  After I got a car I would just go out for a drive and come back when mass was over

  "How was Mass today, Grandson?"     "Very inspiring, Grandma."