Letters from 'Curious Catholic' to his son become popular book

Published: 2005-09-26

FORT WAYNE, Ind. (CNS) -- Pay attention to your next-door neighbor and the cashier at the grocery store. They, and many others, may offer lessons your heart needs to learn. That's the kind of attitude that San Francisco attorney Jerry Hurtubise has taken to his own heart through the years, and it's evident in his new book, "The Spiritual Apprenticeship of a Curious Catholic." Hurtubise spoke with Today's Catholic, newspaper of the Diocese of Fort Wayne-South Bend, from San Francisco, where he provides legal assistance to severely injured people. He said he initially intended the recollections from his childhood to be letters to his son, Peter, now 15, so he would know something of his father's growing-up years. His own father died unexpectedly when he was 13, and it was the absence of personal knowledge about his dad's childhood that motivated him to write.

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