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...Most Rev. John A. Floersh, 51, bishop since 1924 and now archbishop of Louisville, was for ten years secretary to the Apostolic delegate in Washington, the Vatican's liaison representative to the U. S. Church. The Louisville province will embrace all the Catholics of Kentucky and Tennessee, formerly attached to the province of Cincinnati. The bishop of the new diocese of Owensboro will shepherd the faithful of western Kentucky...
...womenfolk to cover their heads at worship, if only with a shawl or handkerchief. Last week the Vicar General of the Catholic diocese of Louisville, Very Rev. E. Erie Willett, startled the faithful within and without his flock when, presumably acting for Louisville's Bishop John A. Floersh, he declared that the currently fashionable, crownless "halo hats" are inadequate for Catholic church wear. Quipped Vicar General Willett: "I am sorry that the ladies here will have to wait until they get to heaven before they can wear their halos...
Before a hillside altar at French Lick, Ind. last week, kneeling while Bishop John A. Floersh of Louisville celebrated a solemn pontifical field Mass, were 550 delegates to the 49th annual convention of the Supreme Council of the Knights of Columbus. Representing 61 State councils, 2,565 subordinate councils and more than 600,000 members, the Supreme Council meets annually, reports on the year's work. Ever proud of its charitable doings, it told how it had maintained an employment bureau in its home city, New Haven, Conn., recording 43,128 placements during the last year. In three drought...
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