By Robert Royal, The Catholic Thing - Among the many abrupt twists and turns in our online-driven, unstable social life, one of the oddest is the recent career of “Cultural Christianity” (hereafter “CC”). CC refers to the merely passive – and precarious – residue of Christianity in many people’s lives, not a fully living faith. In the 1980s and 1990s, it was often denigrated as a sharp decline from the robust religiosity once quite evident in America. ... Cultural Christianity, which used to be the last stop on the way out of the Faith may now be the first step back in. The numbers, so far, are small, but it says something that they exist at all.