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'Please ... forgive us': the story of my return to the church

Soul Seeing: My foot caught in the hem of the cassock. The missal and I went sprawling to the floor. The priest stopped the Mass. "I want you to leave and never serve Mass for me again!"

Perspective

Mom was a pioneer when she chose love over the church

First Person: My mother, who taught me to obey the rules, had herself disobeyed them by marrying a divorced man five decades earlier.