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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: MSB who wrote (68545)	12/24/1999 1:46:00 AM
From: Edwarda	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

Whoops, we seem to be on different topics. I simply meant that it used to be a great way to rid oneself of the door-to-door types to say that one was RC. My father, who was Protestant, used it with wild and gleeful abandon. Most of my family (RC) is composed of "mixed" marriages. Perhaps we are unusual in that there has always been enormous respect--far beyond "toleration" in my family. My brother-in-law is Jewish, as is a cousin's husband; I attended their wedding last year and it was awe inspiring. When my uncle died recently, there was serious grief in his wife's Lutheran congregation, who turned out en masse for the funeral. My own marriage was blessed by my father-in-law's Methodist minister and my father's funeral was graced by a Jesuit friend. It can be a problem if a priest (RC) is not the primary witness to a marriage. This is short-sightedness on the part of the Catholic Church, IMO, since it is a sacrament that the people who are marrying bestow upon each other; the priest is merely the witness.