Rose Mackenberg [1892-1968]
Houdini's Private Eye
When people inquire, I don't always like to tell them what I do for a living. When they find out I'm a priest they can get a little weird. They stop talking, or make awkward "jokes" about priests, rabbis, and minsters, or launch into an over-labored, juvenile, pseudo-intellectual, and banal explanation as to why they don't believe. I usually just tel…