By Paul McMullen

The Catholic Review recently spoke with Pallottine Father Bernard P. Carman, pastor of St. Leo the Great in Little Italy and Star Trek fan.

CR: What and where are your Catholic roots?

FATHER CARMAN: Dad's family (Italian and Irish) always was Catholic. Mom's (English, Finnish, German, Blackfoot Native American) was Baptist, but then Grandmom Berglund, the "matriarch," had a fight with the minister and made the whole family become Lutheran. Mom was a registered nurse, and became Catholic through the agency of fellow students in nursing school.

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