Fred Rotondaro had a knack for friendship across DC divides: Distinctly Catholic: Washington's Catholic community lost one of its great personalities -- one who loved family and relished a good argument -- when Rotondaro died this week at age 78.
MGB:_Intermarriage has probably destroyed the days of ethnic Catholicism, at least among Europeans. Indeed, there is a generation out there where one parent is not even Catholic or a convert to Catholicism, whose grandfather was likely to be lodge member back in the days where that meant not only anti-clerical but anti-Catholic. Of course, among the Italians you might find an unrepentant Mason or too, as well as among today’s ethnic Catholics from the south and the Philippines. Serious anti-clericalism is harder to find, but I do my best where some of our bishops are concerned. Leaving the Church is the coward’s way out and Fred never went anywhere. May he rest in peace.
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