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* [[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.
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* Brazil is a Catholic-majority country. Brazilian Catholics are Non-Practicing-majority Catholics.▼
* And Dara Ó Briain, who provides the page quote.
* [[George Carlin]]'s massive hit show ''Class Clown'' was all about being the class clown of a Catholic high school. A prominent joke: "I used to be Irish Catholic; now I'm American."
* [[Stephen Colbert]], while himself a Catholic in person (and in fact teaches Sunday school), views it differently from [[The Colbert Report|his persona]].
* [[Dan Savage]] is openly atheist and a supporter of the skeptical movement, but considers himself "culturally Catholic".
▲* Brazil is a Catholic-majority country. Brazilian Catholics are Non-Practicing-majority Catholics.
* In the United States, it has been estimated that approximately three-quarters of Catholics don't attend Mass regularly. And in the last fifty years, the number of American nuns has dropped to one-third of what it was in the 1960s, ''despite'' population growth, and the percentage of Catholic elementary school children who attend Catholic schools (rather than public schools) has dropped from 51% to 14%.
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