Word: paulist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Disney! The Superior General of the missionary Paulist Fathers, the Very Rev. James F. Cunningham, writes of the Paulist "trailer missions" which since 1939 have been touring out-of-the-way parts of the U.S. some of which have never seen a Catholic before. Last summer the Paulists operated six trailer chapels through Texas, Tennessee, South Carolina, Missouri and Utah showing movies, preaching sermons, answering questions. Motion pictures are powerful aids in dramatizing religion, and the Catholics use them widely, but there is a shortage of good up-to-date material. One priest is quoted as exclaiming wistfully: "Oh, what...
...August issue of the undenominational Christian Herald presents a question-&-answer analysis of the Catholic position. The Herald asks the questions, takes its answers verbatim from the pamphlet Freedom of Worship, published by the Paulist Fathers with the imprimatur of Cardinal Spellman. Excerpts...
...Vatican has since learned a good deal more about Americanism, chiefly through contrast with Europe's long, convulsive decline toward economic ruin and moral anarchy. In the 19th Century, writes Historian Joseph McSorley of the Paulist Fathers, "clashes between Church and State occurred in every important country except the United States of America." In the 20th Century, "a large proportion of the working classes turned their backs upon the Church...
...organist there at the Carmelite Monastery as a child. He began conducting Palestrina in Chicago's old St. Mary's Church in 1904, a year before he was ordained. "I was 25 years trying to find out how to conduct it," he says. In the meantime his Paulist Choristers became world famous. In 1918 Father Finn left Chicago for Manhattan...
...Boys. Father Finn's choir boys now number devoted generations. Finn choristers have included Orchestra Leader Ray Heatherton, and Radio Announcer Milton Cross. One boy who failed to make the Paulist grade was radio's famed Morton Downey, who had an unsuccessful audition in 1915. "His voice," explains Father Finn, "must have been changing or something." Recently, Father Finn has been traveling, giving the benefit of his experience to Catholic choirs all over...