How come you're not named after a saint? Growing up Catholic in mid-twentieth-century America -- Like an owner's manual for a very complicated vehicle: learning the rules in the classroom and the confessional -- I was born a Catholic and I think I will die one: inheriting religion in the home -- In death, as in life, we will be Irish: constructing identities in the community.
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