GRANBY (MA)
Daily Hampshire Gazette
BY KATHLEEN MELLEN STAFF WRITER
GRANBY - WHEN Robin Powell decided decades ago to convert from Congregationalist to Roman Catholic, he could not have imagined the turmoil that was in store for his newfound church.
The religion that he came to love through a childhood friend's family - a big, close family of Irish-Italian Catholics - intrigued him. He was fascinated by its history, its 2,000 years of tradition.
But now, after practicing the faith for 30 years, and raising his own 12 children as devout Catholics, he finds himself front and center in one of the darkest times in that long history.
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