My sister and I are planning our father's memorial service and she wants a full Catholic mass while I left the church years ago and Dad was questioning everything near the end. We keep having the same circular argument about honoring his memory versus honoring his actual beliefs and neither of us wants to hurt the other but we can't find middle ground.
More people experience this than they realize.
Two people who love the same person must reconcile different understandings of how to honor both his life and his spiritual journey.
“Where Are You with Faith and suffering — the theodicy question?”
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