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Many a Catholic, says Father McCaffrey, is ignorant as to the church's teaching on the sacrament of Penance, which requires genuine sorrow rooted in an "intellectual appreciation" of sin and a firm purpose of amendment as well as simple confession. Many a non-Catholic misunderstands Penance, too; Catholics go to prison because they believe confession excuses their crimes and ends the matter. Not cited in Father McCaffrey's article is the fact that Catholics in prison are more publicized than non-Catholics because their priests do something about them. Nobody hears about the religious views...
...Catholics at all several years ago, which corresponds roughly with the district it serves. In Sing Sing this year the percentage of Catholics is 50%. an increase of 10% over last year, with 855 Catholics, 518 Protestants, 177 Jews, 20 Christian Scientists, 8 agnostics, 2 Mohammedans, 1 Buddhist. Chaplain McCaffrey thinks that most men in prison gave up practicing their faith before they were sentenced. Of people who blame crime on environment, heredity, and physical factors he says : "They are willing to put the responsibility . . . anywhere and everywhere except on the shoulders of the men who break the laws...
...frequent question to Roman Catholic churchmen is: why so great a proportion of Catholics in prison populations? In last week's issue of The Commonweal, urbane Catholic weekly, was a reply by Father John P. McCaffrey, Roman Catholic chap lain at Sing Sing. Chief point: prison populations mirror the localities upon which they draw. Father McCaffrey demonstrates by a section in Massachusetts, as follows...
...MARSHALS *Robert Saltonstail, Jr.313 *Carl Henry Hageman 297 *Irad Benjamin Hardy 271 Benton Spangler Wood 259 Roger Haydock Hallowell 180 Malcolm Bancroft 177 John Clarke Grady 162 Nathan Phillips Dodge 155 Arthur Foote, II 120 Peregrine White 111 James Patrick McCaffrey 91 Stuart Callender Dorman 73 Gerard Jordan Cassedy 41 *Elected FOR TREASURER *Hamilton Young 121 Edward Hutchins Hickey 104 Bradford Keyser Bachrach 66 Richard Soudder Neff 66 John Warren Beach 46 FOR ORATOR Donal Mark Sullivan 174 William Benjamin Bacon 82 James Marcellus Lichliter 61 George Clair St. John. Jr. 60 Howard Lapsley 21 FOR IVY ORATOR *Stephen Henry...
James Patrick McCaffrey...