“P.S. great and touching article on Ann Coulter’s dad, although the article did not mention that she was raised a prot.”
Here is the money quote:
“Even in foreign countries where none of us spoke the language, Father went to Mass every Sunday until the very end.”
If Ms. Coulter were being raised as a Catholic, she might have said:
“Even in foreign countries where none of us spoke the language, Father took us all to Mass every Sunday.”
or
“Even in foreign countries where none of us spoke the language, we went to Mass with Father every Sunday.”
or even
“Even in foreign countries where none of us spoke the language, Father insisted on Mass every Sunday.”
But the construction actually used by Ms. Coulter says that her father attended Mass. And does not even suggest that anyone else went along with him.
A devout Catholic insists on the attendance at Mass of his Catholic children every Sunday, in that Sunday Mass is a grave obligation on every baptized Catholic, and parents are gravely obligated to assure the attendance thereof of their minor children.
sitetest
Dear sitetest: I think you are reaching.
They sure do, even to the point that one can't hear the Mass for the children crying out loud in church, banging their toys on the pews or loudly munching on the snacks that their "devout" parents have brought in little baggies for them to eat. Or at least they do in my inlaw's Catholic Church that we attend when we are in Memphis.