Growing up Catholic in the Twentieth Century

Parochial school in the 1940s and '50s. Strict discipline and rigid rules. Everything was verboten-from eating meat on Friday to patent leather shoes. The catechism told us we were sinners; Bible stories told us we would be punished. Teen-agers would struggle with "e;sinful"e; emotions and humiliating confessions. Finding ways to circumvent the rules-without the guilt and fear-became this teen-age...