The soaring ceiling and stained-glass windows made an impression on the child. Fitzgerald regularly spent time exploring the church and the residence while his mother completed her work. “It was called Mass Ave for short, and as a child, I used to think that our street was named after a church service, not the state we lived in,” Fitzgerald writes in his opening essay, “Family Stories.”įitzgerald’s mother secured work at Boston’s Cathedral of the Holy Cross, tidying up and completing secretarial tasks while getting to know the clergy who frequented the complex, including the notorious protector of abusive priests, Cardinal Bernard Law. His parents, young and unable to get their footing financially, had moved during his youth into Catholic Worker houses in Boston, including one situated in the city’s South End, on Massachusetts Avenue. Dirtbag, Massachusetts by Isaac Fitzgeraldīut Fitzgerald’s childhood had one constant: It was saturated with Catholicism.
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