As a kid at St. Teresa’s School in Norris Green in Liverpool, we would regularly be addressed by Father Murphy for religious knowledge.
I vividly recall a day when he addressed the class, and asked “does anyone have any questions?”
I gingerly raised my hand and asked: “Father, if Adam and Eve only had two sons, where did the rest of the babies in the world come from?” He narrowed his eyes and hissed at me: “Sit down child, and don’t try to run before you can walk.”
I felt that I had done something shameful, and bore the scar of that incident for a long, long time. And do you know, I STILL don’t know the answer for sure!
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