[Mark in the Old South]

Re: "And, let me say, I used to be Catholic and went to Catholic church. Until I was 8. My father walked out the door when on the day JFK was killed. My sister was 3 weeks old. There were 4 of us kids. The priest came the following week to tell my mother none of us could receive the sacrament. Previous to that, the church had been a source of comfort to her, and to us."

I'm sorry about your experience but I must say there seems to me something missing in your story (why did your dad walk out? Did he walk out of the family or the church? What was the reason the priest gave?)
Is it possible there is more to the story that was not available to an eight year old?

[TightyRighty]

Why is her story so hard to believe? Do you people not think that at sometime during the history of Catholicism a priest has not told a divorcee not to come to communion?