I've heard this term bandied about here, but I don't know what it means.

For kicks I took a Quizilla quiz and it said I'm a WASP convert! Oh dear is it that obvious?? I am going to stick out like a sore thumb! ;)

Quiz - Are You A Cultural Catholic? - Quizilla Quizzes (http://www.quizilla.com/users/o4tom/quizzes/Are%20You%20A%20Cultural%20Catholic?/)

Hm, I am not sure. I have two close friends who are Catholic. The first is very Catholic, attends mass every week, numerous baptisms/confirmations etc, doesn't use birth control, votes how the church tells her too, etc.

The other friend went to a Catholic University, uses birth control, rarely goes to church except for Christmas and such, and won't be married in the Catholic church because she is marrying a non Catholic and feels it is too much work to do all they would need to. She considers herself just as "Catholic" as my first friend.

To me, it would be the same as a Cafeteria Catholic. :lol: That means someone who grew up in the Catholic church but picks and chooses the things that she acknowledges.
Like, she may not go to mass weekly, she may choose to not go to confession, she may use birth control, etc.

I am beyond Cafeteria Catholic and am on to Recovering Catholic and consider myself a complete nonbeliever.

It's like the same as a cultural Mormon or a secular Jew. Basically, it's your culture. You're familiar with the traditions, know the people, go along with the rituals because they're rites of passage, etc., but don't necessarily believe all the doctrine to be true.

Well that makes sense to me. I feel like a cultural Mormon even though I am not baptized LDS nor practice it, it is a huge part of my upbringing, my family history, and my current family.

Cultural Catholic - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_Catholic)

I was a cultural catholic when I came back to aknowledging my spirituality. It was an important step in getting me to the right spiritual community!

What is a WASP convert?

Michelle

White Anglo-Saxon Protestant converted to Catholicism

I grew up catholic - so I feel most comfortable with the traditions and ceremonies, but I don't necessarily agree with the current teachings of the vatican

So, I guess you could say I'm culturally catholic (my kids were all baptized, we were married in the church) but I don't go to mass every week and disagree with a lot of the administrative stuff.