Schneider recalled growing up in the Soviet Union and how the faithful had to cling to the entire Catholic faith to endure brutal persecution. COBH, Ireland (LifeSiteNews) — Bishop Athanasius Schneider, auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Saint Mary in Astana, Kazakhstan, is urging the faithful to be “100 percent Catholic” in our modern times. “The greatest gift that we have is the faith, the Catholic faith… the true Catholic faith. So we have to be 100 percent Catholic, not 50 percent Catholic or 80 percent, but 100 percent. This is the divine faith,” Schneider said.