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I'm sorry, but I don't feel that way at all. My memories of my mother are her spiritual remains, something of her nature, her thoughts, a whisper of the person that she was, a fragment of memory, a whisper of her soul that still lives on this earth, will be passed down from generation to generation forever, a voice for good whose name may lost. Her spiritual remains have been desecrated just as much as if the Mormons had dug her body up out of her Catholic cemetery and moved it to a Mormon one. Would you say there was no harm, no wrong, no injury, to me or to any of my parents descendants because we believed she was still buried next to my father?

Well this is far worse, this is not her body, this is the essence of her soul! My mother spent many hours in the last years of life on her knees before God, the Holy One of Israel, who so loved the world that He sent His Only Begotten Son to die upon that cross for our sons.

Putting things to right with Him was her first order, facing her sins, confessing them, seeking forgiveness, and then as a gift for that forgiveness, to make amends to any she felt she had wronged or who felt they had been wronged by her (but don't get me wrong, my mother always was a kind and decent human being) and in tandem were many hours of prayer for the the welfare and spiritual well being of her children, her grandchildren, nieces and nephews, friends (AND our country.)

When I look how seriously she took her faith, and her relationship with God, and the whole business of dying, it scares me. I'm entering my senior years and I know I have a lot work to do (again don't get me wrong, my mother was also a fun person and not ever a pious, sanctimonious holier than thou goody-two-shoes -- my mother would not have a problem with voting for Newt Gingrich!)

How dare these Mormons assume that my mother did not make serious spiritual decisions regarding the state of her immortal soul, her moral values, and the kind of life she wanted to live, not to mention her decision about what to believe, and her choice of faith, right down to her choice of denomination.

How dare they in their smug simple-minded superiority, with their absolutely ridiculous theology, think they have the right to overrule her, to negate the whole point and purpose and direction of her life, which was to be reborn, to be cleansed and forgiven and made a new person, to be made holy and found worthy to enter the Kingdom of God (not the celestial kind, I really don't think she would enjoy being everlastingly pregnant) to have fellowship forever with God, and with His Saints and His Angels. And to do so as a Roman Catholic!

Just who do these Mormons think they are? How dare they? This is an outrage, whether it is done in secret or not, or whether I know about it or not. The ones who have sinned are the ones who have violated my mother's legacy, her memory, her spirit; not the one who would expose it.

And the very fact that those egotistical self-important Mormons who know nothing about my mother, who would desecrate her name and her memory, violate the spiritual inheritance left to her children, are the ones who are in the wrong doing this insulting demeaning thing to our family, then when found out, point their spiritually immature (if not dead) self-excusing self-righteous fingers at those who exposed their evil doings as being the ones in the wrong, after they committed this crime against our family in secret.

You would deny my right to my feelings so no wrong is done by those who HAVE done wrong! Isn't denying me the right to have feelings on this matter, a wrong also? I should not have to detach myself from this wound, this unholy violation of what was most sacred to my mother. I am not the one who should force myself to be indifferent to this wrong -- so you can then claim that no wrong has been done. This my mother and she has been wronged, and so have I!

I have a right to be outraged at this this monstrous insult. These mormons not only attempt to steal away my mother's faith, to substitute it with something she found repugnant, they denigrate my faith too which is the same as my mother's -- my mother would NEVER want to be associated with such a shallow, spiritually blind and in her view, utterly immoral, cult, and I don't want her name associated with it either and I should not have to stuff my feelings about it, and pretend they don't matter so the mormons can get away with not being responsible for the wrong they have done.

And I am still alive, my feelings should count, I have a right to be angry about this! It is bad enough I have lost my mother and my very best friend, I don't need this ugly festering hurt.

I suspect that Daniel Pearl's parents feel exactly this way too.

And what an outrage to dead-dunk Princess Diana. Her mother-in-law is the temporal head of the COE, her only husband and the father of her children will someday be, and then someday her son, and his son after him. What an insult to the people of England, these callous inconsiderate conceited mormons, to so demean and diminish the great British empire's beautiful, centuries old Christian denomination!