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Stretched out on his plain brass bed, retching in pain, the Pope seemed first to be suffering an appendicitis attack; then, as evidence of intestinal hemorrhage appeared, the doctors feared a perforated ulcer. X rays were ordered. The sacrament of Extreme Unction was administered. Gradually the pain began to subside...
...said passionately: "EDC must be launched! . . . Europe and the fatherland must be saved." He turned from the telephone in tears. A few hours later he had another heart attack and then another. A priest was summoned, and Alcide de Gasperi, a devout man all his life, received the last sacrament. His daughter began to read the prayer for the dying. Shortly before dawn, De Gasperi said: "I am dying," and then, with his last breath, muttered, "Jesus, Jesus, Jesus...
...many of today's Presbyterians would be considered nominal, if not heretical, by their precursor, John Calvin? It is also hard to understand how he can call a church which runs schools, hospitals, retreat houses, etc., out of all proportion to their small numbers, and also provides a Sacrament for those who feel the need of it, uninterested in moral problems...
Newlyweds and oldsters approaching their golden-wedding anniversaries, bankers, soldiers, industrialists, doctors and union organizers listened again and again to Father Schmiedeler's even flow of words, reminding them of the spiritual meanings of their marriages. "Christian marriage," he said, "is a grace-giving institution and a sacrament of the Church in the same sense that the priesthood is a sacrament . . . Marriage is a symbol of the union of Christ with his followers, and the Christian family is a replica of Christ and the Church . . . The family which loves God, which serves God, which is in eternal union with...
Marie Dionne, 19, last-born, smallest and shyest of the famed quintuplets, said farewell to Papa and Mama Dionne in Callander, Ont., left for Quebec City to become a postulant in the convent of the Servants of the Very Holy Sacrament...