text: A good Catholic is not necessarily your average daily communicant. "Sometimes they're the worst!" This statement shocked me when I heard it 40 years ago coming from a friend and mother of 7 children whose husband had just left her for another woman. Subjected to the speculations and gossip of  "good Catholics", she shared her bitterness about such people with me. Left to raise the kids on her own after the divorce, she, thankfully, had a nurse's education, the support of her parents and the commitment to raise them in a Christian manner that left a golden trail of admiration. When her one daughter was married, the bride's  brothers, not her father, escorted her down the aisle. Touché!