[SwedeBoy2]

“Happy to hear your grandfather would be OK with this.”

The Pope quoted De Tocqueville’s observation about the sharing of a common value system bringing the blessings of Freedom and Prosperity to America.

America’s Freedom and Prosperity is a Blessing and as long as there are so many issues that divide us, those blessings will continue to whither and may ultimately die.

I was making an observation about the separate burial facilities of the two groups ( Lutherans and Catholics )

If the two groups were more integrated they might have had a town Cemetery. I found the arrangement strange and evidence of Bigotry on both sides.

Grandfather left that place and some of his family members to find better work opportunities elsewhere.

[mlizzy]

Okay, thanks for the clear-up ...

In regard to the cemeteries, I would want to be buried in a Catholic cemetery, as Catholicism is not just a portion of my life these days, but IS my life. So to be in an all-faiths encompassing cemetery would seem to say in death, that I also believed, in life, in loving Christ through Luther (or whomever), which would not be true. All Christian faiths are not the same (or there wouldn't be all these denominations), which you well know. But I'm from Mother Teresa's camp when she says, and it's a paraphrase, "If you are a Protestant, be the best Protestant you can be, if you are a Catholic, be the best Catholic you can be, if you are a Muslim, be the best Muslim you can be, and so on."