I was fascinated by Peggy Steinfels’s memoir of growing up in a Chicago Catholic world. So I thought I’d open a thread, with a question. Which little First Communicant is you, Peggy? I haven’t gotten my paper version yet.Woops—looking again, it isn’t first communion. What is it?

Cathleen Kaveny is the Darald and Juliet Libby Professor in the Theology Department and Law School at Boston College.

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