Sometimes Cat thinks about God.
She thinks of how everyday really amazing things happen and how everyday really terrible things happen. Like how some people are nice and others are mean or some people seem nice but are actually mean and she wonders why that is. She wonders why God makes bad and broken things instead of just the good things.
Looking at her friends she wonders if they wonder too.
Being both Portuguese and Italian, Cat really had no choice but to be Catholic, although her family doesn't practice much. She remembers her pretty white confirmation dress with the ruffles that floated when she spun and spun and spun and sometimes she sees her mother do the rosary when she's alone, but there is never much talk of religion in the Valentine household. There is never much talk of anything.
Robbie is Jewish, though, and Cat wondered what he thought. He takes a while to answer, like he's not sure. He believes in God, he says, he really does, but sometimes it seems like He never really paid him much attention. Rex says it's because Robbie's just a waste of space and a mistake who shouldn't have been born in the first place which makes Cat sad and Robbie angry. Rex was stuffed in Robbie's locker for the rest of the conversation.
Tori says that she's Christian and Cat forgets how that is different than Catholic. Tori tries to explain it to her, making a table about what's the same and what's different, but Cat gets distracted by Tori's colored pens and soon the two of them are making word art on the back of old homework assignments (Besides, Cat can't tell if Tori's confused expression is because of her pen not working or something else).
When she asks, Andre says that his grandmother used to be Baptist before she lost her mind, and he remembers most of the prayers. He goes to church still, every week, because he loves the music. He tells her that he thinks it's through music that he feels closest to God. (He takes her with him one week, and she thinks the music is pretty, but the whole time she just feels like she's sitting in a church, no where else).
Beck is halfway Hindi, depending on if he's visiting his grandparents. He likes what they have to say, most of the time. He says that it's all about balance and he likes that. That it means that there is a reason for everything, even if he can't see it. Cat likes that, too, and says as much. He smiles then and she smiles back. It's nice.
And Jade is, well, Jade. When Cat asked her what she thought about God, Jade had laughed. Cat hadn't understood why and Jade didn't explain. They go out for ice cream instead and eventually Cat starts to think about colored sprinkles instead.