article_snippet.sent: I was 27 at the time, and, like most young people I had stopped going to church.
article_snippet.sent: I don't know if all Catholic churches would have shut me out, but I figured, at the time, it was part of the long list of rules the Vatican required Catholic leaders to follow.
article_snippet.sent: Clearly, God conduits on Earth did not have time for me -- a lifelong Catholic -- and sinner -- so why would God?
article_snippet.sent: Ever since, I've considered myself a lapsed Catholic.
article_snippet.sent: Those kinds of answers are so different in my experience, but I understand why more conservative Catholics worry.
article_snippet.sent: I always felt the church would reject me for committing the smallest of sins.
article_snippet.sent: Like not covering my head with a traditional veil at Easter.
article_snippet.sent: Like accidentally eating meat on Holy Friday.