In a message dated 7/15/2007 10:15:11 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, merossi1@yahoo.com writes: Gee folks, it seems to me there is a very simple solution to deal with reading about married priests if you don't want to...or any other topic...its called the "DELETE" button. I use it often and it saves me much aggravation. I open up my inbox and check all of the mail that looks uninteresting and delete and read the rest. Its not so difficult.... All the best Mary Ellen Rossi ----------------------------------- I totally agree that this kind of strident action is not called for. I thought I was done with parochial school a long long time ago! But, I guess not! What's even MORE interesting is that off-topic topics are still entertained like boating or over-rated Irish poets. Guess the rules just apply to some. Tolerance seems to be a highly selective thing here lately. Btw, lively discussion has always been a hallmark of the other Irish lists I belong to. Maybe way off topic for this list but neither should it give some delicate souls 'the vapors.' Just my 2 cents; ought to be yours. LOL. Eileen ************************************** Get a sneak peak of the all-new AOL at http://discover.aol.com/memed/aolcom30tour

Eileen The answer is tolerance. When I was growing up in Australia my Grand Parents Generation were about keeping the orange and the green stoush going. My Parents generation saw a great reduction in keeping old fires alight, by My generation it was unusual to find it; with my kids generation it was so rare that they never saw it, thank God. My Grandfather a Catholic married my Grandmother a Protestant. The marriage did not last to long as he was caught out in an affair. My father was baptised so often he did not know if he was coming or going; His mother would take him to CofE and his Aunt would take him to RC; so he was of revolving door faith. He went to God early [48] of cancer, before Dad departed my Grandfather asked him to be baptised a catholic, he agreed and was buried a catholic [with the blessing of all his family]. Although CofE I with my siblings attended catholic schools and I can honestly say that none of the Nuns, Brothers, priests or fellow students treated us any differently to anyone else. When I became engaged to my now wife, my future father in law heard my name and said "you are not marrying a catholic". One of my sisters married another protestant, and at the age of 50 they both converted to RC. One of my sons married a catholic girl [without changing to RC] in a catholic cathedral, the grandkids are catholic and my sons wife teaches at a catholic school none of which causes a ripple of concern to my family. Australia seems to be a great place to forgive and forget old wounds, we now have the fanatical Muslims causing problems, I hope that Australia can again throw a blanket on them. Peter O'Donoghue

Good Evening Peter et al: I loved your narrative on your family and am somewhat envious of its convolutions. I cannot "top"it. Nobody [Kerry List folk] knows of my own family's situation but I must support your answer, i.e. "Tolerance", it is brilliant and so apt. I have been blessed with 5 lovely children, over time one of them married a "fallen away" [i.e. real gone] Catholic, the other one, her sister, married a Jew we all love very much, another married a Methodist who divorced him after putting up with him for over a decade and my oldest is supposed to be marrying a Baptist in May. There's no hope that my second will ever marry anybody. He loves his father too much. I couldn't care less because primarily I can't do anything about it, either as a father they all love a great deal or as a fellow citizen. It all seems to "work out" for the best, though I think that won't be happening soon enough for me, I am over 71 years old afterall and it seems that it will take more than a decade to "work out" for those who are in any trouble. I.e. my second, the others are fine. Love, Jack Sweeney, about to go to bed in Palmer, Pennsylvania