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When death reveals complicated religious relationships

My mother's dying and she wants a Catholic funeral but she spent forty years angry at the church and I don't know how to honor both versions of her.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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End-of-life decisions can expose the complex mixture of resentment and attachment that characterizes many relationships with faith traditions.

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