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Article: A moment on the way to somewhere else. (Across The Age Spectrum).(Catholic culture and Vatican II, 1962-1965)(Column)
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- National Catholic Reporter
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- October 4, 2002
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I grew up steeped in the Catholic culture of the 1950s. We lived just two blocks from the church on the hill. I attended the parish school, helped count money after Mass on Sunday and spent a lot of time in the rectory "phone sitting" when the priests all went out to dinner on the housekeeper's night off.
I never was abused by a priest. The closest I got to that was a priest who was a basketball coach and introduced me and my friends to some curse words we had never heard before. He was loud and foul-mouthed and embarrassed players in front of the world, but as far as I know never sexually abused anyone.
My life was full of Catholic peculiarities. I had ...