Hmm, I don't know if this is a common interpretation at all, but I don't think Emily is Catholic. I think her parents are probably nominally Episcopalian, as you guys say (don't know if I would have come up with that on my own, but I'm not terribly familiar with any of the Christian denominations other than Catholicism and Lutheranism), but I get the impression that Elizabeth Prentiss, at least, does whatever the job requires of her. I did not get the impression that she went to the Catholic church when they were in Italy, any more than they might have gone to the Orthodox church when they were in Russia. I got the impression that Emily went to the Catholic church because that's where all her friends were going. Remember "you'll do anything to fit in." And if she was getting interested in Catholicism, that probably shattered when the priest rejected her.
I see Emily as a seeker when she was a teenager and without religion (if not necessarily atheist or agnostic) now. But I think you could fit her to almost any religion without canon necessarily contradicting it. I guess it's just all in how you look at things ;)
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Date: 2011-04-27 05:16 pm (UTC)I see Emily as a seeker when she was a teenager and without religion (if not necessarily atheist or agnostic) now. But I think you could fit her to almost any religion without canon necessarily contradicting it. I guess it's just all in how you look at things ;)