Raised Catholic: Difference between revisions

* ''[[The Boondock Saints]]''

* Silent Bob, according to ''[[Chasing Amy]]''. In a moment where he exemplifies [[The Silent Bob]] he explains how he ended up breaking up with his girlfriend after finding out about her previous sexual experience not from any disgust, hatred or anything but because...

* In ''[[Dogma]]'', at the beginning, Bethany doesn't believe in God and works at an abortion clinic, but still goes to Mass on every Sunday.

 

* Kyle "Oancitizen" Kallgreen of [[Brows Held High]] occasionally makes some nods to Catholicism in his reviews and sketches. Even the [[Mind Screw]] ending of ''What Is It?''

* Nella in [[The Nostalgia Chick]], which is [[Played for Laughs]] during The Chick's review of ''[[Sister Act]]''.

 

 

* A number of Catholic writers, such as John Caputo and his "religion without religion," deconstruct this trope by rethinking what constitutes religion and belief in the first place. Hence to press the "Cafeteria vs Faithful" Catholics issue (especially in terms of "piety") would be missing the point of actually ''believing'' in something.

* [[Denis Leary]] goes so far as to found the Lapsed Catholic Church at the end of his second album, ''Lock'N'Load''. He also admits that he couldn't remember the Hail Mary prayer during a scene when his character in ''[[Rescue Me]]'' has to recite it, but can name the starting lineup of the 1967 Red Sox off the top of his head.

* Brazil is a Catholic-majority country. Brazilian Catholics are Non-Practicing-majority Catholics.

* And Dara Ó Briain, who provides the page quote.