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A community of faith: America has a growing string of countercultural towns where religion, traditional culture, and family life are taken very seriously. Welcome to one of them.

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| May 01, 2006 | Weinkopf, Chris | COPYRIGHT 2006 The American Enterprise, a national magazine of politics, business and culture (TEAmag.com). This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

I was on a Sunday morning a few years ago, just after Mass at St. Sebastians, our local parish, when my wife and I got the unmistakable sense that our new hometown of Santa Paula, California, is a different kind of place. Standing out on the church patio, we found ourselves charmed by a friendly couple and their cheerful, impeccably mannered children. "How many kids do you have?" I asked, making conversation. The response, from both husband and wife, came in unison: "Only four."

Only four?

We were 50 miles north of Los Angeles--where no one, except maybe recent Latin American immigrants, has four kids, let alone more. But looking around our parish in ...

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