A secular Jew attends the Christmas Vigil Mass.

Robin of Berkeley, a self-professed "wandering Jew", discovers the beauty of the Catholic Church.  On her first visit to a Berkeley church.  On Christmas Eve.

And in a heartbeat, I understood why leaders from Marx to Mao try to keep people away from God, and why they will always fail. I flashed to an image of those mothers who somehow find the superhuman strength to lift up a car and free their children.

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