Even the most devout of families have suspicions of priests

    What does it say about the Catholic church that even in the ’60s, the most devout followers had their suspicons of priests? Mostly, that priests are humans.

    In Allen’s Lane, WHYY Morning Edition host Jo Ann Allen recalls a childhood experience in her devout Catholic upbringing that she says was uncharacteristic for the time — and for her mother, but for which she’s eternally grateful.

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