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Mary's Seminary in Emmitsburg, Md., De Pauw last spring formed his tiny movement, which seeks to restore the all-Latin Mass in U.S. parishes. De Pauw argued that the council's adoption of the vernacular was "protestantizing" the Mass, and that the bishops had been duped into accepting it by left-wing theologians. Cardinal Shehan, De Pauw's superior, angrily ordered him to get out of the movement...
...York, and found that this apostasy shut society's doors to her. In desperation, she opened a boardinghouse for schoolboys in New York, and when that faltered, a girls' school in the more Catholic city of Baltimore. In 1809, she formed a religious community of women at Emmitsburg,, Md. There she started what was, in effect, the first Catholic parochial school in the U.S. By the time she died, of tuberculosis, in 1821, her tiny order had expanded to ten houses. In 1850, it united with the Daughters of Charity, founded by France's St. Vincent...
...writing detective and adventure stories and who during World War II proved the feasibility of a curved-barrel rifle for house-to-house fighting by putting six shots in an 8-in. bull's-eye at 75 yds. while firing around a corner; of a heart attack; in Emmitsburg...
...Walsh brothers, James and William, were only a year apart in their family of nine brothers and sisters. They were inseparable while they grew up in Cumberland, Md. and later at Mount St. Mary's College in Emmitsburg, where they both graduated in the class of 1910. Fortnight ago they saw each other in a Communist jail in Peking-for what will almost certainly be the last time on earth...
...Emmitsburg...