Word: unction
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...Netherlands last week the Arch bishop of Utrecht and four Catholic bishops, in a pastoral letter read in every Dutch Catholic church, proclaimed their refusal to administer extreme unction or bury with Catholic rites "Liberals, Socialists, Communists and National Socialists," forbade Dutch Catholics to join Nazi groups...
...been at big (1,419 communicants), fashionable St. Luke's since 1924. There he has introduced, but not publicized, two services which most Episcopalians do not even know exist, though provision was made for them in the last prayer-book revision of 1928. These are Holy Unction (anointment of the sick with olive oil specially blessed by a bishop), and a Laying on of Hands at the altar rail for spiritual healing. Father Conkling says: "I have never known a single case where there was not some benefit, spiritual or physical...
...pious exercise. Hecklers and speakers alike were delegates to the ninth annual National Catholic Evidence Conference, which met last week at Manhattan's Hotel Commodore. In arguing over confession, extreme unction, miracles, indulgences, purgatory, the Pope, they were demonstrating tactics for open-air meetings from Boston Common to Los Angeles' Pershing Square...
...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...
...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...