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...drawing room. He held the Senator's wrist, felt his heart's final flutter. Dr. Richard J. Costello of Cambridge, Mass., who was a passenger in the same car, pronounced Senator Walsh dead. A priest was routed out of his berth to administer conditional absolution and the sacrament of extreme unction. At Wilson. N. C., Dr. Malry Alfred Pittman boarded the train, gave a sedative to hysterical Mrs. Walsh, had her and her husband's body removed at Rocky Mount...
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...
...final vows completed, Katharine Drexel founded with the Pope's approval the Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament and became their Superior General. She took over the old Drexel house at Torresdale, Pa., later built a motherhouse at Cornwells Heights near Philadelphia. The Sisterhood's motto: "God's greatest work on earth is man. Man's master art is the leading of man to God." There are now 320 sisters. 41 foundations in 18 States. But Indians were not their only concern. Mother Katharine Drexel looked out from her cloister upon what she called "America...
...Corporation in fancy gear. But to meet Cardinal Lauri a special touch was necessary, so the Corporation planned to greet him in cocked hats, sable & scarlet robes lined with Irish poplin. Suitably robed also were to be those 16 Irish gentlemen who will carry the Canopy of the Blessed Sacrament in the procession, among whom would be: President de Valera, Vice President Sean Thomas O'Kelly, ex-President William Thomas Cosgrave, Speaker Francis Patrick Fahy, Senate Chairman Thomas William Westropp Bennett, and dapper, jimmy-walkeresque Lord Mayor Alfred Byrne of Dublin...
...value. . . . Without these walls, a troubled and distracted world is seeking again the ways of Peace and orderly living. Within these walls fresh affirmation is given of the ways and means by which alone that Peace can be secured. . . . Here, we are seeking to understand through symbol, praise and sacrament, the paths that shall lead us ultimately to those serener heights where we shall know and comprehend God's larger plan for the peace and happiness of His children. . . . In no place other than here in the capital of the nation has such a Temple of Peace a more appropriate...