On a warm Wednesday last May at Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Parish here, carefree kids in short pants and skirts file out of ranch-style school buildings. They walk down the shrub-lined walkway and into the dimly lit church. The weekly student Mass begins with the sound of an organ and off-key singing. Some kids daydream; others whisper. The altar girl bites her lip in laughter. Soon, a flush-faced upperclassman races through a reading from the Acts of the Apostles: ?God has overlooked the times of ignorance but now he demands that all people everywhere repent.? Deacon Kelly Stewart, in his soft, reassuring tone reads the Gospel according to John. ?I have much more to tell you, but you cannot bear it now.? A breeze blows through the rangy pines as the kids shuffle back to class....