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I'm a Catholic of the New Testament, I'm not a Catholic of the hierarchy.

Anna Quindlen

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Anna Quindlen
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: July 8
Author
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Journalist
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Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Anna Marie Quindlen
Hierarchy
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knowledge of our own mortality is the greatest gift God ever gives us.
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