Reply #14: My childhood church is within walking distance of my house [View All]

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And since both of my parents are dead, I don't expect to ever step foot in it again.

I was close to my uncle who was a very liberal long haired priest. When we had family gatherings he said Mass. In living rooms, at parks, on the shore of a lake. It was awesome. Those were my favorite Masses.

He always brought a fellow priest or a parishioner who had no family to our Thanksgiving dinners. And he always sat at the table in my grandmother's kitchen with the kids while all the other grownups sat in the dining room.

I so miss being able to confide in him and ask him questions about my wavering faith in the Catholic church. He always said it was more important to believe in God than to be faithful to a religion.

He is in a nursing home and has Alzheimers. I so wish I could still sit and talk to him about Catholicism. I miss those talks.