This article presents an analysis of the religious practices and moral convictions of a group of sons of Italian immigrants in Belgium. The authors try to catch the meaning of these practices and convictions in so far as these are part of a process of socialization.How do the people involved try to use these practices and convictions as a means of finding their way out of the social marginality which they are confined to, being sons of im migrant workers ?This analysis shows in how far social conformity or non conformity in the religious and moral field can correspond to strategies built up according to the social position of the people involved.