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Really, Father, I do appreciate our Catholic schools

Really, Father, I do appreciate our Catholic schools
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By Dorothy Cummings McLean

June 26, 2014

Dorothy Cummings McLean

“Oh dear,” said I to my husband. “In this letter, Fr. Fitzgerald thinks I have somehow dissed the Ontario Catholic schools by doubting the Catholicism of the Santa Barbara killer’s California private school.” 

“I told you not to use those scare quotes,” said unsympathetic Mark. 

“Yarg!” I replied, but in a tone which suggested both he and Fr. Fitzgerald might have a point. After all, the story that led me to believe Crespi Carmelite High School might have lost its Catholic character had come from the murderer himself.

Dorothy Cummings McLean