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We were absolutely certain that all 'non Catholics' were damned, that Jews were thugs and that atheists were the scum of all the scums.We said prayers in the way a machine gun dispenses rounds of ammunition and as altar boys we gave out the Latin…

The biggest item on the agenda for us growing up in the 1940s and 1950s was religion, not so much the love of God and certainly not the love of our neighbour but the avoidance of Hell. In first class (8 year olds) Fr Hearn came in one day to enquire…