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When I was a kid, going to Mass on Sunday was not the highlight of my week. With all respect and affection for Pope Leo XIV, I was falling away before falling away was a thing.  It just didn’t make a lot of sense to me. And the sermons. Drowsy.  Except for one Sunday each year when Monsignor Fitzgerald — I suppose he had a first name — stood up in the pulpit of Oak Park’s Ascension Church and talked money. My head would snap to attention as he t…