Young and Hungry
Lickona can relate. Although he's a lifelong Catholic, he was a teenager when he began to really look at the tradition he had inherited, "poking around in the dusty basement of the church," he says. He took up the scapular, the two small squares of brown felt connected by a string, which carry a promise from the Virgin Mary dating to 1251 that whoever dies wearing them won't suffer "eternal fire." Though his strict interpretation of Catholicism pervades his life, Lickona feels like a regular guy. If you can swim with your scapulars, after all, balancing life and faith doesn't have to be an either-or proposition.
Born: June 27, 1973
Family: Lives with his wife, Deirdre, and their four children, ages 7, 5, 4, and 18 months, in La Mesa, Calif.
Education: B.A., liberal arts, Thomas Aquinas College, 1995
Occupation: Wine columnist, San Diego Reader
Publication: Swimming With Scapulars: True Confessions of a Young Catholic , 2005
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