Stepping lightly in her blue cloth coat, short red hair
shining, the petite suburban Irish Catholic woman was properly dressed for
court, ready to be judged for the terrible crime of having a rosary dangling
from the mirror of her car.
“See? I’ve got it, and I’m not letting go,” Catherine
“Kit” Morris told me Wednesday, drawing her tiny fist out of her pocket, the
fingers gripping it tightly, knuckles whitening. “I’m so nervous. I think I’m
going to pass out. Look at it. Is this an illegal object? Will they dare fine me
$75 for a rosary?”
It was her light blue rosary with the white cross, the
one her children made for her long ago, the rosary that a Westmont police
officer deemed was illegal, before giving her a $75 ticket for obstructing the
windshield.
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