Martin ‘In Good Company’ with students

KELLY MCKEE STAFFWRITER KMM723@CABRINI EDU

An awed silence fell across the Widener Center lecture hall as students gathered to hear the extraordinary stories of speaker Father James Martin. The onetime- business-man turned priest, as well as author and editor, spoke to students on his experience in the industry, his presence at Ground Zero during the 9/11 attacks and, to the great amusement of the audience, his fondness of the television show “Sex and the City.”

Martin, associate editor of America magazine, began the afternoon, on Thursday Oct. 14, with a poignant reading from his first book “In Good Company,” a book that Martin describes as “the difference between my old life and my new life.” Transporting the audience to the damp, pungent bathrooms where he

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