DETROIT – Madonna is on Jennifer Zablocki’s iPod. So is “The Madonna.” The Detroit-area 12th-grade teacher works up a sweat to the pop diva’s music as well as songs honoring Mary, the mother of Jesus.
On a Wednesday night in late October 2022, I knelt in the small basement chapel at Williams College in Massachusetts, where I was a junior. Sweaty, shaky and beyond nervous, I began to pray the rosary ...