<p>Claremarie, my mother was raised Catholic. Catholic school all the way through, the whole works.</p>
<p>Her mother (my grandmother) refused to attend her second wedding, to my (step) father who was Jewish (they were married by a rabbi).</p>
<p>I cannot tell you how deeply this hurt my mother to the core. </p>
<p>I am pleased to say that my grandmother did realize, a few years later, how very wrong she was, and how wonderful my dad was to her and to me (he adopted me and I became his daughter in every way, shape and form and he did not differentiate between me and my younger sister, who was “his” biologically).</p>
<p>They made their sincere peace with one another and all is well. But I cannot emphasize enough how hurtful such a policy is (and I say the same thing for Jews who won’t attend their child’s wedding). </p>
<p>It’s not really Christ-like, you know.</p>