Timothy Crowe. Credit: Boston Globe

There was a great story in Sunday’s Boston Globe about Timothy Crowe, an actor who was an altar boy at St. Gabriel the Archangel in south St. Louis, and later a St. Louis seminarian.

Crowe, 63, portrays Father Patrick Murphy in “The Savannah Disputation,” a play that just opened at the Boston Center for the Arts.

Crowe “attended parochial school and Catholic high school before entering a St. Louis seminary as a high school sophomore,” writes Globe religion reporter Michael Paulson. “It was another era in the church, when Mass was in Latin and Cardinal Glennon College had 400 young men studying for the priesthood.”

“This was the old days, when we studied Aquinas in Latin, had a monastic schedule and a very strict academic program,” Crowe said. “There were no newspapers, no radio, and no TV. There was silence during meals - we would be read to - and…

It was reported today in the Boston Globe that LDS (Mormon) women, many moms among them, are making their mark in young adult literature – click here.

I found my husband Dan, an LDS bishop, reading the Twilight series by Stephenie Meyer. I’ve never known him to be interested in young adult fiction, let alone vampires. He only scanned the Harry Potter series to know what his kids were reading. But the Twilight series captured his interest probably because many in his flock are reading it.

Dan took me to see the Twilight movie. I have to say it is probably the first time in our twenty-two year marriage he invited me to see a chick-flick!

It doesn’t surprise me that LDS mom Stephenie Meyer would write a wholesome vampire story. Well, maybe not the wholesome part, but vampires?… they seem scary. So yes, I am surprised about that. But Stephanie’s vampires are so nice that I am ashamed I had held such negative misconceptions of them.

OK, whoa, back to reality.…