Yes, the Romneys Converted Mitt’s Dead Atheist Father-in-Law to Mormonism

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33. I would also point out that some Catholic practices are a bit strange also.....

Some priests will administer the Annointing, part of the Last Rites, AFTER a person has died, simply for the comfort of the survivors, although this was also apparently justified before Vatican II on the basis that the soul might still be in the body, as I understand it. I am sure there are Catholic DUers who can clarify.

The other practice I wonder about is saying prayers at the funeral for the person's soul to keep it out of purgatory (again, my understanding) would seem to be something which really cannot be justified if one adheres to the notion of personal responsibility for one's faith.

And then there is that transubstantiation thing - which essentially turns the celebrants into cannibals, it seems to me.

Philosophically I have some trouble with the Immaculate Conception of Mary thing as well. So not only was Mary a virgin but HER mother was also? How about Mary's Grandma? How far do the virgin births go back?

And that Mary was a virgin all of her life - so Jesus had no siblings, but yet he supposedly did?

Is it unfair to compare these practices/beliefs to the Mormon practice of converting ancestors?