Word: sacraments
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Jean-de-Dieu, waiting for the sad sentence that they knew was inevitable. They learned that he had received the last sacrament. Twice they heard that he was in a final coma...
...disappointed by the confusion of what went on. They had no one leader, no formal place in the Congress program. With their nicknacks and souvenirs some of them cleared out of Carthage and Tunis until the grand summation of the whole Eucharistic Congress, the solemn benediction of the Blessed Sacrament before 10,000 witnesses (including infidels). Those who had poor places will have opportunity to see and hear the whole thing again. So too many a stay-at-home U. S. Catholic. For, three U. S. newsreel operators posted themselves at the very altar after Cardinal Lepicier had tactfully overcome...
...This exhibit is a Soviet caricature of the Sacrament of Holy Communion. It is depicted in such a gross, revolting and ghastly form that its public reproduction is impossible. The dismembered and disembowelled body of the dead Christ, depicted in a pale green hue, is surrounded by a group of priests, peasants and laymen who are ravenously devouring the flesh and drinking the blood which pours from the Saviour's side. Several of the figures, with countenances of maniacs and ghouls, are pulling forth the intestines and mouthing them...
...covering letter Father Walsh wrote: "To the Right Reverend and Reverend Clergy. . . . You will notice that . . . mention is made of a particularly blasphemous cartoon ... in mockery of the Sacrament of the Eucharist...
...waiting for the electric chair. The first act is an agonizing crescendo leading to an execution. The murderer is given a lavish meal which he cannot eat, cigarets which he is unable to finish. His temples are shaved for one electrical contact ; his trousers are slit for another. The sacrament is administered. He passes each of the other six cells in the Death House on his way to a green door. The other six of the doomed wait in silence until the lights go dim, indicating that the prison dynamo is working at its peak. In the next two acts...