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...find out if there was a Lord Turner. In a Hove telephone directory the editor's helper found the name of Sir George Robertson Turner. Thereupon Cavalcade printed and credited Sir George with a letter he had not written. In court, Sir George, an 82-year-old, devout Church of Englander, said Cavalcade's botchery had caused him great pain, for his friends began suspecting that, at his great age, he had lost his mind...
George Speri Sperti, 37, is a devout Catholic, one of six U. S. members of Pope Pius' Pontifical Academy of Sciences. He used to be a laboratory director at the University of Cincinnati. When the Archdiocese of Cincinnati established the Institutum Divi Thomae as part of the Ohio Athenaeum (collection of Catholic schools), Biochemist Sperti became a full professor there. Atheistic scientists are not admitted to the Institutum Divi Thomae "because they cannot think straight...
...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 devotions consecutively over a period of time. Catholics believe that these mass novenas are more potent than private ones. In Chicago last January a perpetual novena, the only one in the U. S. devoted to the Virgin Mary in her special aspect of "Our Sorrowful Mother," was begun at Our Lady...
Thirty-five years ago, in uptown Manhattan, devout Russians built, with money donated by the late Tsar Nicholas II, a brick & sandstone Cathedral of St. Nicholas, archiepiscopal seat of the Russian Orthodox Church on the North American continent. Recently, many a passerby in the street gazed upward at the Cathedral's steeply-pitched roof. There, perched on a ladder, a stocky young man wielded tar buckets, rolls of tar paper. He was Very Rev. Michael Maslov, dean of the Cathedral. For months, rain had been leaking through the roof, damaging the murals and icons within. Prelates of the Cathedral...
Father Malachy's Miracle (adapted by Brian Doherty from Bruce Marshall's novel; produced by Delos Chappell). When devout little Father Malachy (Al Shean), with the help of God (offstage), sent a dance hall whizzing 20 miles through the air, he was not damning dance halls. He was proving to a skeptical Anglican parson (Frank Greene) miracles could still be performed, and he hit on the dance hall only because it was handy. The miracle was a fine success, but the Pope disapproved. "Too showy and new-fangled," said the bishop (St. Clair Bayfield). The dance-hall customers...