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Note: r Dolly, an MTA toll taker, was married to Dick Pearlstein, who, with his father Louis, ran the haberdashery that was on the way to being Boston's best men's store, which it remains. Cardinal Cushing was often in the Pearlstein home, and he had ample occasion to experience his brother-in-law's innate goodness. There came to be no question for Cushing as to whether his sister's beloved husband was beloved of God. That Dick Pearlstein was Jewish - a "non-Catholic" - ceased to have decisive meaning, and Cushing began to take Feeney's "orthodox" preaching as an insult to his own family. An abstract principle of theology was upended by the sort of cross-group interaction that had become common in America.
- James Carroll's Historical Revisionism, Paul Anthony Melanson
Sources:
1. Descendants of John Dahill, Diana Dahill James, IrishRoots@@highstream.net
2. James Carroll's Historical Revisionism, Paul Anthony Melanson
http://lasalettejourney.blogspot.com/2005_12_01_archive.html
Note: Weaving a story as fascinating and intricate as The DaVinci Code (and just as idiotic), Mr. Carroll continues with his fiction: "Why was Cardinal Cushing the one to force this change? Cushing's siste
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