ST. LOUIS (MO)
Berger’s Beat
EXACTLY A DECADE AGO, our town’s Barbara Dorris celebrated the 35th anniversary of her marriage in an unusual way: apart from her husband Andy and in a Vatican prison for a few hours, Dorris, outreach director for SNAP, was protesting in Italy after the death of Pope John Paul II. She and SNAP founder Barbara Blane, a SLU alum, were upset that the disgraced Cardinal Law, who resigned as head of the Boston archdiocese because he hid and suffled pedophile priests, had been chosen to say a special mass in Rome honoring the deceased pontiff. (Her spouse, by the way, belongs to the family that founded St. Louis Motor Carriage Company, one of the first car manufacturers here.)
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