By Elizabeth Wong Barnstead, The Western Kentucky Catholic “Boom, boom, boom-boom-boom,” echoed the drum as the steady beats bounced off and around the interior walls of St. Stephen Cathedral in Owensboro on Aug. 27. Behind the traditional matachines dancers – whose leader was beating the drum – hundreds of Hispanic Catholics began to pour into…

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