It was three Octobers ago, and Capuchin Father Ronald Lawler and I were in the basement of St. Augustine Friary in Lawrenceville. We were sorting the books in his copious library into boxes since he had decided to donate them to a theological think-tank.

One day near Christmas about ten years ago, when I was still editor of Our Sunday Visitor, I received a small package from a nun. She was looking for someone to publish a children’s book she had written and illustrated.