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Last week that rare and awful punishment, an interdict, brooded like a judgment over a Roman Catholic parish in Cleveland. Closed was Holy Redeemer Church. Cut off from the sacraments of marriage, of Holy Communion, of penance, of ordination, were its 1,100 Italian families: no baptisms, no confirmations, no parochial school. Only one sacrament was left in Holy Redeemer parish: Extreme Unction, which the Church gives to all its children-good, bad, or indifferent-who are about...
...attained fame as a liberal in a Congregational pulpit-King's Weigh House Church in London's West End. He, who once used to keep away from church at Easter because he had his doubts about the Resurrection, became increasingly Catholic. He instituted Mass, the Reserved Sacrament, the Benediction, bells, candles and incense in his Nonconformist church. When a well-fed parishioner demanded to know why, in Mass, he had been asked to worship "a bit of bread," Dr. Orchard snapped: "Well, sir, we happen to agree with our Lord that it is His Body. But, judging...
...priest was arrested at Znin while giving extreme unction to a dying person. "His clothing was torn from his body and the Holy Sacrament profaned...
...writer in spite of his pose of indolence, he figured that he had turned out close to 21,000,000 words. He had also managed to paint pictures, run for Congress, organize a labor union, make innumerable speeches, run a little weekly newspaper of his own, remember the Holy Sacrament, spend hours on end eating & drinking with his friends in such Manhattan night spots as the Stork Club...
...Europe, Catholics commonly parade in the streets with the Blessed Sacrament on Corpus Christi, a feast celebrating the Lord's institution of the Eucharist. One of the few places in the U. S. where elaborate Corpus Christi processions take place is Florissant. Except for a few years after the World War, Florissant's devout inhabitants have decorated the town and marched with the Sacrament on every Corpus Christi since...