text: Who wants to bet the backgrounds these Italian Catholic converts come from is more an NCR-type background than a Trad Catholic background. 
  
  Interesting how Mormonism has appeal because it offers a distinctive manner of life and how hard we Catholics tried to get rid of our distinctive manner of life back in the 60s (and of course for many here, we haven't shed nearly enough of our distinctiveness.) People are drawn to religion that demands something of them not one that tries to accommodate itself to them.