Recent content by Fran75

Miles that was a lovely post. As a Byzantine Catholic I often have difficulty relating to the Latin rite to me they are very legalistic. That is not how I was raised and cathticasized.

Glorify Him!

I' m so sorry to hear this. hugs and prayers for you both

Yeah I tried it once, it was a total fail. I do make a mean from scratch dumpling and by dumpling I mean big fat egg noodles not those puffy round abominations.

I'll pass, thanks anyways

That does sound good, my husband makes a mean lassanga that uses less ricotta than usual and I like it so I bet I would like your recipe. This tread is making me hungry for my homemade from scratch spaghetti sauce it is pretty time consuming so I haven't made it since we brought our son home.

I gotta call it like I see it, national pride aside Italian cuisine is way better than German in general. I like any Italian food that doesn't have ricotta cheese in it (I really hate ricotta).

I'm mostly German and even I prefer Italian food.

If you go for some of the seafood dishes than yes but generally not the other dishes.

Wow Anhelya I had no idea things were still that devisive there.

Well I'm pretty liberal about everything except abortion so if it was true that 0bama was trying to indoctrinate our kids via the public school system, which I don't think he is, I doubt I would have a problem with it. I expect that my child will be exposed to different values and points of...

I was so sorry to hear this, even more so because of his age, 51, and that he has a young child.

Yes, we had many non Catholics in pur school too. Since it was our parish' s school, it closed many years ago, it was affordable for my parents, non parishioners paid considerably more. My father, a protestant and public school teacher did not feel that the specific public school that I would...

I have many protestant friends and relative including my husband I would be honored to be invited to attend their baptism but if they had previously been baptized in the Catholic church would probably decline. I hope it never comes up.

This is one of those things that could happen in theory but rarely or not all happens in real life. I went to our parish' s school (K-8) I never found this to be true but I was glad to go to a public high school. I will not send my son to private school religion or secular although it don't...