MaryPezzulo

Angel was in need, and friends were happy to help her, until they discovered that she wasn't in the need she'd said she was. If you practice the works of mercy, sometimes you're going to get conned. Practice them anyway.

The first Catholic church to be built on that spot was begun in 1830, constructed with the labor and funds of the working class children of Irish and German immigrants. Their descendants only come here for Mass. This is the normal ebb and flow of the tide of American cities. We come here as riffraff, live downtown in squalor, build a church, and eventually our descendants become people who want nothing to do with the squalid riffraff that live downtown.

She'd come to the Franciscan University young, naive, neurotic. She found comfort and counsel in two priests. One was later revealed to have protected a sexual predator, the other is now under indictment for raping a young woman he was counseling.

Sixteen signs that you're in Narnia, that have nothing to do with heroism