“It is presently de rigueur to claim that Catholicism thirty-odd years ago was repressive, hidebound and frightening, but I found in it great richness and an abundance of people who made me laugh.”
Alice Thomas Ellis (b. 1932- d. 2005) from Serpent on the Rock, 1995
•2005 article from Crisis Magazine titled, Unexplained Laughter: The Life and Work of Alice Thomas Ellis, link: Catholic Culture, Alice Thomas Ellis
