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SANTA FE, N.M (Reuters) - A New Mexico family is suing their local Catholic church over a funeral Mass in which they claim a priest said their relative was only a middling Catholic and going straight to hell. Lawyers for the family of Ben Martinez said they had filed a lawsuit in June against the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Santa Fe and one of its priests. Court papers say that Rev. Scott Mansfield said at Martinez's funeral last year that the deceased was 'living in sin,' 'lukewarm in his faith' and that 'the Lord vomited people like Ben out of his mouth to hell.' Martinez, 80, died June 17, 2002. Roughly 200 people attended the funeral at St. Patrick's Parish in Chama, New Mexico, a small town north of Santa Fe. Family members say he was a practicing Catholic all his life, but was too ill to attend church in the last year of his life. Nine members of the Martinez family are seeking punitive and compensatory damages for severe emotional and physical suffering...
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