Word: catholicize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week, nearly a year after Bishop Edmund F. Gibbons banned church-sponsored "bingo" games in his Albany, N. Y. diocese (TIME, Dec. 21, 1936), a further reaction against such games of chance was noticeable in the Catholic Church. Archbishop Samuel Alphonsus Stritch of Milwaukee had put a ban upon...
To Roman Catholics a novena is an act of faith which is performed by saying nine prayers or series of prayers, usually in hope of gaining special material or spiritual rewards. A perpetual novena is arranged by a church so that the devout may come in and make their nine...
Prior of the community of the Order of Servants of Mary (Servites), which conducts Our Lady of Sorrows, a monastery and two parochial schools, is Very Rev. James R. Keane, 35. Asked last week to account for the religious fervor which not only fills his church (capacity 1,1001 but...
With a specific favor usually in mind, novena-makers at Our Lady of Sorrows write their petitions on blanks handed them before their novena begins. Favorite petitions are for good health, for employment, for souls in purgatory, but many a petitioner is interested in matters like the health of the...
After the eighth Friday of my Novena I met a fine Catholic young man. He has been taking me out since then. It is such a relief to have a boy friend who understands as well as practices his religion. . . . A CATHOLIC GIRL.