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By Caroline Manno, Crisis Magazine, Dec, 20, 2025
Caroline Manno is a wife and mother who has worked as a proofreader and writer for many years. She homeschools her four children with much help from her mother and mother-in-law, who reside with the family.
What The Sound of Music lacks—whether due to cultural superficiality or merely time constraint—is the deep spirituality of Maria and the family’s lived Catholicism.
When I was 15 going on 16, my aunt took me on The Sound of Music Tour in Salzburg and photographed me in front of the iconic gazebo where Robert Wise shot the “Sixteen Going on Seventeen” number in 1965’s The Sound of Music. Despite traipsing through the von Trapp’s hometown, my acquaintance with them then and in the decade that followed was confined to their portrayal in the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical starring Julie Andrews as Maria von Trapp.Related posts
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