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<p>[QUOTE="Bronwen, post: 409963, member: 5833"]May depend on what other culture is mixed with your Catholicism. My very devout Catholic downstairs neighbor knows the Bible less well than her heathen upstairs neighbor because she is Haitian & was taught that so much as touching, much less reading, a Bible was a confessable sin. That your knowledge & understanding were all to come from the priest & little pamphlets summarizing & explaining texts.</p><p><br /></p><p>The neighbor with the pretty necklace that turned out to be a rosary is Hispanic, Dominican or Cuban. Just remembered I have another acquaintance with whom I nearly had the same exchange about her necklace, then realized it was probably a rosary & she confirmed that it was. Guessing her heritage is Italian.</p><p><br /></p><p>The great big ones that could almost be nunchucks, I see around the necks of young black men.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Bronwen, post: 409963, member: 5833"]May depend on what other culture is mixed with your Catholicism. My very devout Catholic downstairs neighbor knows the Bible less well than her heathen upstairs neighbor because she is Haitian & was taught that so much as touching, much less reading, a Bible was a confessable sin. That your knowledge & understanding were all to come from the priest & little pamphlets summarizing & explaining texts. The neighbor with the pretty necklace that turned out to be a rosary is Hispanic, Dominican or Cuban. Just remembered I have another acquaintance with whom I nearly had the same exchange about her necklace, then realized it was probably a rosary & she confirmed that it was. Guessing her heritage is Italian. The great big ones that could almost be nunchucks, I see around the necks of young black men.[/QUOTE]
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