Marcus thinks of the church when she asks, he thinks of the priests who work here, the ones who don't seem to understand what it's like to preach to a different sort of people than the ones who are in Darrow. They struggle with the Catholics who come from somewhere else because they don't understand them and Marcus is of the mind they never will. It's not his place. It'll never be his place.

Beyond that, he also doesn't particularly care whether or not their sermons land.

"It's not that hard to be willfully blind," he answers. "But I think you already know that, we see it all the time in day to day life. In a place like this, it just seems to have become more pronounced. For some... well, for many, I suppose, it's easier not to question, isn't it?"