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Portrait Of / The lapsed Catholic

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17.05.2026

Dominic, known since his teens as Dom, enjoys telling people that he’s Catholic, or a ‘left-footer’ as he sometimes modestly describes himself. He feels it a distinction that gives him a bit of mystique in the financial services circles in which he moves. Non-Catholics are often mildly interested in his education by monks, his views of the papacy and whether he goes along with all the ‘rules’. But while Dom has lots to say on the matter, the truth is that the devout Catholicism of his upbringing is receding into distant memory, kept alive by a kind of niggling unease on Sunday mornings when he must decide whether or not to go to church. And nowadays, what with work, the children, the weekends in the country, he mostly just doesn’t have time. And that little pang of guilt is generally nothing that a Bloody Mary and a barbecue won’t banish.  

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