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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...family, made his First Communion at 7, wished to become a missionary priest but believed he heard a voice say: "My little Guy, I shall take you; you will die young; you will not be My priest; I desire to make you My angel." Marie Thèrèse Wang (1917-32) is called the "Rose of China...
...elementary school, the child was found to be dangerously tuberculous, they put her in the care of the Sisters of St. Michael's Hospital. Ta-jun quickly became interested in Catholicism, was baptized in 1929. She chose the name Marie for the Blessed Virgin, Thèrèse for the Little Flower of Lisieux, whose career she was to duplicate at many points. The 33 months pale, pretty Marie Thèrèse Wang was a Christian on earth is the simple story of a precociously virtuous soul, a saint seen in small, sharp detail through...
According to the Roman Catholic Church, gambling is not per se sinful. It is entirely licit under certain conditions, chief of which are that the odds must not be too strongly against the gambler, that he must own what he gambles with. According to many an evangelical Protestant Church, gambling is decidedly sinful. Nevertheless, Protestants and Catholics both countenance gambling, in the form of raffles, euchre, five hundred, pinochle and bridge parties for prizes. Currently another game, beano (or bingo, or keno), has been popular at Church bazaars and sociables. In this, any number of players purchase boards bearing...
...Negro in any U. S. Catholic church. "Non Sum Papabilis." When the College of Cardinals gathered in 1903 to elect a Pope,the following conversation took place between a Frenchman and an Italian:* "Votre Eminence est sans doute archevêque en Italic. Dans quel diocèse?" "Non parlo francese." "In quanam diocesi es archiepiscopus?" "Sum patriarca Venetiae." "Non liqueris gallice? Ergo non es papabilis, siquidem papa debet gallice liqui." "Verum est, Eminentissime Domine. Non sum papabilis. Deo Gratias." The Patriarch of Venice, who spoke no French but in Latin thanked his God that on that account...
...University should cease trying to tutor everyone on the theory, however laudable, that the Tutorial System is per se a good thing. It is, an excellent thing -- but only for those who take it in the spirit in which it is given. Others have no place in it, and should be separated from it before more money is wasted on them...