Joani, I can relate to this entire story even the turning point Humanae Vitae. Thanks, I googled the Baltimore Catechism and actually found some information. Hope to print it out someday to think 7 years old and memorizing these Questions and Answers. But we are Free NOW To Be You and Me (to steal a line from Marlo Thomas).
Thanks, Barbara!! It’s remarkable really and not necessarily in a good way what the RC Church inflicted on us as kids! But they also did save me in many ways and if not for Sister Mary CLARE I would not have become an Episcopal priest decades later!