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...streets, visited the same churches. The first day Our Lord of Miracles "lunched" at the Church of the Concepción, "slept" at the ancient Church of Los Descalzos. From balconies along the narrow streets women tossed flowers. Occasionally white doves flew up, released from paper cages by the devout, as the procession passed their doors. Behind the sweating litterbearers walked the penitents, with feet bare and sometimes bleeding, holding candles aloft and murmuring contritional prayers...
Contents: a devout essay in praise of the Virgin Mary; a comparison of the two worlds represented by Rockefeller Center and its neighbor, St. Patrick's Cathedral; an amateurish satire on the totalitarian state; two denunciations of modern materialism. A reactionary point of view pervades the sharp, provocative piece, "Are You Ashamed of the Gospel?", which pulls Catholics up short for yielding to liberal influences, for forgetting that separation of church & state, freedom of worship & speech, freedom of conscience on religious revelation have special and limited meanings for Catholics...
...Studer's time, Detroit has swelled from a dozing Midwestern town of less than 200,000 to the fourth city in the U.S., a brawling industrial center of nearly 2,000,000. The Young Men's Christian Association has grown with it. The chief reason: aged (79), devout Dr. Studer, the world's oldest active Y secretary, and one of the shrewdest Christian gentlemen who ever wore the triangle. Says...
...prewar R.A.F. padre, not a pilot, a slight difference in occupational activity. I did not say that The Bells of St. Mary's was "so bad," but that it had a dishonest element to which devout Catholics also objected...
...Quebec City; its great grey stone citadel, whose guns had once guarded the New World for France, still frowned down on the narrow twisting streets of the Old Town. The habitant women in their dusty-black Sunday clothes still knelt to pray in ancient Chapelle des Augustines. With devout Americans they still trudged the 21 miles to the shrine of Ste. Anne de Beaupre on pilgrimage...