Well, we SOCIALIZE together, what's the diff?

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/local/baltimore_city/bal-te.md.ci.priest09nov09,0,4110692,full.story?coll=bal_tab01_layout

A story from Baltimore about a Catholic priest "fired" for letting an Episcopalian priest "join him" during a funeral Mass.
Right.
Read the story and you discover that as the latest in a string of incidents, (including dogs in the sanctuary?), the priest allowed the woman in question to perform a duty reserved to ordained Catholics, (which had to have been a deliberate flouting of liturgical law, since the Episcopalian priest, a close friend of the deceased, could just as easily and effectively have, say, proclaimed the OT reading, or the non-Gospel NT scripture); and that he probably encouraged her to receive, in defiance of canon law.

But the real problem, IMO, is that the people who this priest should have been most concerned with ministering to ,(after praying for the soul of the deceased,) the surviving family, have apparently received such lousy catechesis over the years that one could say something like this:

[The deceased's] son ... who had invited [the Episcopalian priest] to participate in the service, was stunned and outraged by the action taken against Martin."I am sickened that they would treat our pastor this way," ... and that such ecumenical activity wasn't unusual at the church."In our neighborhood, when you go to church dinner or a church function on a social level, people from all churches are involved," he said.

There you have it.
Adult, apparently "practicing" Catholics, generations of them now, that don't know the difference between a church social and the unbloody re-presentation of the ritual murder of the Son of God.

Why am I surprised that a bright, good Catholic kid, (a top student through eight grades of Catholic school,) can can apologize to me that he didn't show up last Sunday because his family "went to Mass at the Baptist church"?