Dolly Rebecca Parton Dean died on Tuesday, August 25, at the age of 80, and the world got a little bit dimmer.
I’ll be honest: I was initially unsure of an angle that would be relevant for the Catholic Herald’s audience. So I turned to Google. Had she perhaps met Pope Leo during the past year? Nope.
Pope Francis? She had not.
Surely she had met Pope St John Paul II? Apparently the granddaughter of a Pentecostal preacher had been the only megastar not to have an audience or photo-op with him during his 26-year papacy.
