DFO: Nun-sense

No wonder my ears were burning Saturday. I was being roasted at a St. Pius X Catholic Church celebration of Father Andrew Schumacher’s 50 years as a priest – and I wasn’t even invited. Berry Picker Claudia, from Post Falls , called Monday to tell me how the former St. Pius padre regaled his former parishioners with a tale from an interview I did with him, that appeared in The Spokesman-Review on Christmas Day 1988. The story told of Schumacher taking over for distant cousin, the late Bill Wassmuth. Bill, a local human-rights giant, had followed his heart out of the priesthood in June 1988 and later married. White-haired and dapper, Schumacher was then 54 years old. Late in the story, I included the familial linkage between Schumacher and Wassmuth. I meant to say that Schumacher’s grandmother and Wassmuth’s great-grandmother were sisters. However, Father Andy enjoyed retelling the gathering at St. Pius X 21 years later that the sentence read: “(Schumacher’s) grandmother and Wassmuth’s great-grandmother were nuns .” Which would require divine intervention. Mea culpa/ DFO .