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Article: Gimme sanctuary; the right of asylum.
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- National Review
- Article date:
- May 17, 1985
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It's a fine, sunny day, after a not too hectic week, and so, basking in an incipient ebullience, you receive with equanimity your wife's suggestion that you accompany her to Mass tomorrow morning. She promises "something interesting" will happen; you're sure to be surprised.
The mood of ebullience starts to attenuate perceptibly. You are well aware of what "something interesting" usually means: They're added a ukulele to the folk Mass again. But no, your wife persists, the surprise concerns a new mission of the Church, like the old days when visiting missionary priests would regale the parish with stories of roughing it pro Deo et ecclesia in some unpronounceable ...