Pols, entertainers open up on their Catholicism in new book

Source: chicago.suntimes.com - Saturday, December 31, 2016
Editor’s note: Robert Herguth, a staff reporter for the Chicago Sun-Times, is author of the new book “Genuflections: Famous Folks Talk About Growing Up Catholic” (Eckhartz Press, $15.95.) The book includes the faith experiences of dozens of actors, athletes, musicians, politicians and others — from Chicago and around the country. The book is available at http://ift.tt/1F2ECiy , Amazon and soon will be available at select bookstores. Included below are Herguth’s interviews with U.S. House Speaker Paul Ryan and human-rights activist Bianca Jagger, ex-wife of Rolling Stones rocker Mick Jagger. U.S. House Speaker Paul Ryan was raised in Wisconsin in “a very typical Catholic family,” with Mass on Sunday, eight years of parochial school and parish priests who were often at the dinner table. U.S. House Speaker Paul Ryan, the 2012 Republican vice presidential nominee, attended St. Mary’s School in Janesville, Wisconsin, from first grade to eighth grade, and said of the experience, “I enjoyed it very much.” The Catholicism of his youth — in the 1970s and 1980s — was somewhat “rote,” marked by rules. But he said he nonetheless liked being part of the faith, in school and beyond. “You bond [with fellow students] because the classes aren’t very big,” Ryan said, describing his Catholic school upbringing as “warm and inclusive” and “comfortable” and “family” oriented. He was an altar boy, which allowed him to “learn so much more about the Mass

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