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How childhood religious practices resurface during times of crisis

I pray the rosary my mother taught me when I'm scared even though I haven't been to Mass in twenty years.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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Ancient rituals can return as comfort when adult reasoning fails to provide solace.

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