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I'm going to read you
some pieces that are--

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well, we'll say in the regular
sphere of life kind of place.

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And I was reared in
South Bend, Indiana

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at the University of Notre Dame.

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And I was brought
up Roman Catholic.

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I'm 100% Irish.

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I even hold an Irish passport,
to tell you the truth.

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So, I'm going to read you a
poem called "Protestants," which

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gives you a little
view of how things

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were in the early days for me.

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"Protestants, they
went to church.

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It didn't count.

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Adults attended Sunday
school, but we were not

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allowed to go with them.

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Their ministers could
marry and spoke English

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through the service, which was
not like mass because the bread

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and wine stayed bread and wine.

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We were the real thing.

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We were taught that
if you could persuade

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a Protestant to
become Catholic, it

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meant free admission to heaven.

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Eternal bliss became
an easy home run.

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A Protestant who
became a Catholic

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was a convert, meaning
zealous to the point

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that real Catholics seemed
like Protestants beside him.

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Every Catholic had this
missionary calling,

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the next best thing to a
vocation to the religious life,

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and anyone whose child became
a priest or nun would get

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to heaven automatically, minus
any other noteworthy behavior,

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or despite a life of sin.

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There was a lot of pushing
in those days, a lot

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of good quick work with nets."

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