text: Some people might not catch what I can only assume is irony!
  
  So many customs and traditions brought over from many "home countries" are mostly pious superstitions and second generations do well to lose them! They may have given identity as being "Polish" or "German" or "Italian" or whatever other Nationality , but one learns to be "Catholic" when one  learns to just look at them as cultural nostalgia rather than as essential to "True Religion".
  
  Some might not hurt, but they aren't "the Faith". They are rather like the various National cuisines -- Mexican food, and Italian dishes, and Polish sausage, or whatever, are all good. Everything adds to the American experience. But one does not limit oneself to the old country diet of one's origen.