Q: I'm curious as to the appropriate practice of saying the St. Michael prayer either before the final blessing or after Mass ...

and sit in the back of the church. I’d sing and pray and cry with everyone else gathered, but then scoot out at the very end, but not before slipping a Mass card in the appropriate receptacle ...

Hearing my stumbling words — about as sophisticated as those of Judy Blume’s Margaret — makes me feel like a phony Catholic ... a rosary and a prayer card. On Good Friday, small groups ...