Anniversaries, Stories, and #popeindc

So I’m going to the canonization Mass tomorrow. And I still am totally stunned… and totally grateful.

The way I got the ticket was 100% God. It wasn’t because I write about things Catholic, including two books about women saints and ongoing contributions to a major devotional,Living Faith.It was because my parish of two thousand families held a drawing for the four tickets it received (two sitting, two standing) and my name was drawn first.

It was fifty years ago around this time that I sat i...