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Our colleagues in Church journalism at America magazine have offered a public service in this glimpse of Stephen Colbert visiting the magazine’s office for Mardi Gras.

Colbert answers simple questions from Fr. James Martin, SJ, revealing details of his faith that do not usually break through the fourth wall of television.

And Colbert revisits the folk-Mass chestnut “The King of Glory,” which prompted these mad dance moves several years ago.

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