I
don’t think that I was aware my family was Roman Catholic until I was about
eight years old. It wasn’t something that we spoke of really. Dad never
converted but agreed to raise my sister and me in the faith when he married our
mother. When Mom died I think it shook my Grandparents faith quite a bit. Dad’s
faith, if it ever really existed at that point, was destroyed. He took his
solace from a bottle rather than prayer for years after. So I was raised
without any real mention of religion. I was told that there was a god and that
my mom was now with him, but that was it.
