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We apparently have a few things in common. I was raised Catholic (six school years included), though I couldn't call myself "practicing" for quite some time. (However, your description of being Catholic "mostly in a cultural sense" could possibly apply to me. Is part of that still being able to sense-smell that pungent incense at Christmas Eve Midnight Mass?) I do have very positive experiences with parishes/Masses shepherded by Jesuit priests. That's later in life, when it wasn't because I "hadda go." Liberal, for sure, which to me signified acceptance for "all God's children." The lay teachers are another story. You are absolutely right about the true Jesuit's academic bent making the difference. Is it any surprise that I voted for Obama?
