Tornado Alley (PROG)

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dbleagl -- my dad was a devout Catholic all his life, and gave the church well over a million bucks during his lifetime -- when my dad was dying, the priest he'd been closest to for decades was nowhere to be found, and they sent over some very young new guy from a foreign country who could barely speak English to do the rites -- my dad had his heart set on the traditional rites, had had his final moments all planned out in his mind, again for decades -- the very young new guy said 'oh we don't do that any more, we only pray for miracles now' -- with what little ability to gesture and speak he had left, my dad went nuts, literally crying and begging for the traditional rites, but the new guy would have none of it and just muttered some short prayer about god's mercy and healing that nobody could understand, and then very promptly left -- which as far as that goes was wise on his part, as it was just about all I could do to not land myself in jail doing what I felt like doing to that new young guy at that point -- afterward my dad was devastated throughout his few remaining final hours, horrible, terrified look never left his face, and he was never again communicative, to anybody, not me or my sister let alone anyone else

the day after my dad passed the local bishop got in touch and attempted to demand to see my dad's complete estate documentation to confirm that my dad hadn't left everything he had to the diocese (and thus nothing to me and my sister) -- as the bishop and others at the diocese had intensely pressured my dad to do, couched in terms that amounted to not at all subtle threats about the salvation of his eternal soul, for many years before he passed -- well, he hadn't, and I'll leave it to your imagination what my sister and I had to say to the good bishop in response to his attempted demand