"He instinctively can find the shining greatness of our American culture and does a good job of highlighting it (although he also does have those rare lapses when he writes about hockey, but that is something caused by impurities in the Eastern waters or something)." Erik Keilholtz
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Mark C. N. Sullivan is an editor at a Massachusetts university. He is married and the father of three children. Email
Tuesday, September 23, 2003 If you can't go to Rome, visit the Shrine of the Holy Whapping, which has become a daily tour de force travelogue of smells and bells and saintly relics in the Eternal City, courtesy of Shriner Matthew, who is spending the academic year there. You read his stuff and realize the rest of us can just pack it in. (Via Fr Jim)
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