Hello new minister here...product of a mixed marriage...devout catholic mother, spiritual southern methodist father...as a child I could not attend my fathers families weddings, funerals because of church teaching...when I was an adult I asked my father why he converted to catholisism...his reply was after serving in north africa and the mediteranean theatre during WWII...he had found a good women...and wasn't going to let a trivial thing like religion keep him from marrying the woman he loved. I was raised an easter Christmas catholic, lost faith in the church, but not in God...and as for wom