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...Convent. This was many a million dresses away from the attic business that Nellie Quinlan Donnelly, a young housewife, started in 1916. At the Parsons (Kans.) convent where she went to school, the second youngest of 13 Quinlans, she told her roommates: "When I'm a housewife I'm certainly not going to look such a sight as a lot of women...
...long lifetime, tall, gentle-voiced Msgr. John L. Belford, who at 86 is pastor of Brooklyn's Roman Catholic Church of the Nativity, has founded two parishes, built two churches and a convent, enlarged a school, and paid off debts in a manner which astounded his superiors. Other priests have often urged him to put down on paper the methods they had very good reason to respect. In the American Ecclesiastical Review last week, Msgr. Belford finally discussed his fund-raising techniques. Excerpts...
...Tell Them to Come." For many years he has lived in Rome, making his home in the convent of the Little Company of Mary, on Celian Hill, not far from the Coliseum. The streetcars clanging past his window disturb him not at all as he sits in his simple room, writing in a hand still firm. A Catholic living in a Catholic retreat, he calls his religion "a matter of sympathy and traditional allegiance, not of philosophy." Says he mischievously: "I believe I am the despair of the nuns here, who hope I'll become pious on my deathbed...
Last week, at the Vancouver convention of the Canadian Federation of Convent Alumnae, strait-laced Archbishop Duke spoke his mind on still another human frailty: bathing beauty contests. Said he: "They are unbecoming and could be the occasions of sin ... They are barred to Catholic women who realize in conscience this great danger ... It lowers the dignity and esteem due to women to parade them and measure them . . . like cattle...
...Henry Ford II),* had thought things out and come to a major decision. Renouncing worldly goods (her grandfather left $10,000,000) and worldly pleasures (a Manhattan debut last winter and a two-month tour of Europe this summer), she announced that on Sept. 15 she would enter the Convent of the Holy Child, Sharon Hill, Pa., to become...