CATHOLICS CLING TO COMMUNITY.(RELIGION)

Albany Times Union (Albany, NY) | September 11, 1999 | Copyright

Byline: ANDREW GREELEY

The most fundamental truth to remember when trying to understand Roman Catholicism in this country is that Catholics like being Catholic because they like the meaning and belong- ing, the stories and the community that Catholicism offers, whatever its other faults may be.

They stay in the church because of the sacraments, which tell the stories, and with the neighborhood parish, which provides the community.

Most academic and media types don't get that. Nor do the Catholic elite, left or right. Hence none of these folk really ...

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