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Skipping The Funeral: The Rams And The City Of City Of St. Louis

We don't know where the Rams will be. We know where they are and where they have been. For one Rams fan, that's not enough.

You should always go to other people’s funerals, otherwise they won’t come to yours.

While funny on the surface, Yogi Berra spoke a plain truth central to the deeply Catholic south St. Louis neighborhood in which he was raised.

As a non-native and a non-Catholic, I didn’t fully comprehend that sentiment until my daughter reached school age. We sent her to a parish school about ten blocks from Berra’s childhood home and were suddenly introduced to the doctrine of "obligation.