| | Nice story Bob.
My parents only went to mass for weddings, funerals and baptism. I remember one time when we went to a memorial mass for an aunt who died of cancer. My late aunt's husband paid for this mass. The mass was like an ordinary mass. Sermon was about the church roof and how it needed fixing and how there was no money, etc, etc... . Then at the end of mass, the priest said: "today we commemorate " and he recited in a hurry a long list of names.
In Belgium the major religious denominations get funding from the government. Their ministers of the cult (priests, pastors, rabbi's...) get government wages. He got paid a dozen times by private citizens for one mass and still he went on about money.
Then I understood there was something deeply wrong with the Catholic Church.
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