Eternity is calling Bruce Springsteen, and it’s drawing him back to his childhood parish church, whose steeple cast a long shadow over his working-class upbringing and whose liturgies echo in nearly every song he’s written since then.
For Springsteen, the Catholic Church stands at the “origins of his dreams and his beliefs”, as one appreciative essayist has written. Now, it seems, the Boss is poised to return to those origins, to walk the long walk home.
That was the most interesting bit from a long interview with Springsteen that recently appeared in the Times of London. The interviewer apparently spent most of his time talking politics, and the Boss obliged with some sensible remarks – more sensible, at any rate, than most pop stars’ political musings.
