- Feb 5, 2002
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MY FAVORITE STORY OF THE YEAR
It began with what seemed like a chance encounter with a radio show I don’t usually listen to.
WROL AM 950 in Boston came on, playing In Season and Out of Season, a Catholic program hosted by a priest of the Archdiocese of Boston. A voice I didn’t recognize described an incident in which the speaker had suddenly felt called to talk about God to people standing in line at a palm-reading establishment in Salem, Massachusetts, the unofficial Halloween capital of America.
That got me thinking, “What’s it like to be a Catholic in Salem in October?”
A few months later, I was standing near the voice on the radio, a lay Catholic street preacher, on a warm Saturday afternoon a few days before Halloween. I spent about two hours with him, most of it watching, including a memorable 11-minute exchange with a Satanist.
Continued below.
It began with what seemed like a chance encounter with a radio show I don’t usually listen to.
WROL AM 950 in Boston came on, playing In Season and Out of Season, a Catholic program hosted by a priest of the Archdiocese of Boston. A voice I didn’t recognize described an incident in which the speaker had suddenly felt called to talk about God to people standing in line at a palm-reading establishment in Salem, Massachusetts, the unofficial Halloween capital of America.
That got me thinking, “What’s it like to be a Catholic in Salem in October?”
A few months later, I was standing near the voice on the radio, a lay Catholic street preacher, on a warm Saturday afternoon a few days before Halloween. I spent about two hours with him, most of it watching, including a memorable 11-minute exchange with a Satanist.
Continued below.
