Dad's not Orthodox. I just asked him and he said that he's "a misfiled Conservative Jew."
Seriously, though:
Papa agreed that all the children would be raised Catholic. Probably largely because Nonnie actually cared one way or the other. Dad was an altarboy for a while, as was his brother.
When they grew up, pretty much ALL of them drifted away from the Church. Dad's brother Bob ended up travelling the world, and, in part, looking for spirituality. He was a Buddhist monk for a while. Neither of his sisters seem to ever particularly have any religious questions even cross their minds. It's just not something that's important or interesting to them. They have their lives, their work, and their families, and they don't really have much need for religion -- they don't really seem to care much about any of the questions which religion tends to attempt to answer.
And Dad was a lapsed Catholic atheist who married a Jew. And after, oh, maybe thirty years of living with a Jew (who was more-or-less nonpracticing at the beginning of it) and maybe twenty years of helping to make and maintain a Jewish home (my parents didn't really start having a Jewish home until I was around five years old), it became obvious that I would eventually marry Lis. And my father realized that he wanted an aliyah at my aufruf (the party the Shabbat before the wedding).
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Seriously, though:
Papa agreed that all the children would be raised Catholic. Probably largely because Nonnie actually cared one way or the other. Dad was an altarboy for a while, as was his brother.
When they grew up, pretty much ALL of them drifted away from the Church. Dad's brother Bob ended up travelling the world, and, in part, looking for spirituality. He was a Buddhist monk for a while. Neither of his sisters seem to ever particularly have any religious questions even cross their minds. It's just not something that's important or interesting to them. They have their lives, their work, and their families, and they don't really have much need for religion -- they don't really seem to care much about any of the questions which religion tends to attempt to answer.
And Dad was a lapsed Catholic atheist who married a Jew. And after, oh, maybe thirty years of living with a Jew (who was more-or-less nonpracticing at the beginning of it) and maybe twenty years of helping to make and maintain a Jewish home (my parents didn't really start having a Jewish home until I was around five years old), it became obvious that I would eventually marry Lis. And my father realized that he wanted an aliyah at my aufruf (the party the Shabbat before the wedding).
So he decided to convert.