Interfaith Group

Essentially it means that someone who was brought up in the Catholic Church never really gets over it. The best example I can think of is actually not from Catholicism at all. I know a man who was brought up as an Orthodox Jew. As an adult, he has become an atheist. Yet, for example, he doesn't eat buttered bread with meat and won't touch pork or shellfish. He simply does not feel comfortable doing this. In this way, he is still a Jew, even though he does not believe in God. Similarly, Catholic attitudes towards things such as sin and guilt are not easily given up, even though one may have renounced one's membership in the Catholic Church.