At Catholic grade school in Chicago we used school time to prepare for our First Holy Communion. During this time, my best friend was sitting out on most of the activities, like confession, etc. When asked, she replied she was "Greek Orthodox". I knew she was Greek but had no idea a country could have their own religion. Why wasn't my family "Irish Orthodox"? Then a revelation...my family was actually Italian but didn't know it. We were "Roman Catholic" after all.
A childhood belief about church
others believed things like this
- i used to believe all foriegn languages were greek if you learned greek you could speak them all
— pappy 6 27 35 - When a "mean girl" in early grade school asked me if I was a virgin I answered "no I am catholic."— Hilary
- I used to believe that the red thing in the middle of a Greek olive was the pit.— Liz
- For a while I thought Anon was a name of an ancient philosopher. Probably Greek.— zeforeigner
- When I was in elementary school nuns cam to our school. I thought that 'nun' meant they had no religion.Anon
- Until I was well along in years I always thought our family was Irish because my dads birthday was March 17th— Gladys