Convert Chains through Pamphlets and Faith
A WV woman recounts how sharing a Catholic pamphlet sparked a chain reaction yielding 19 converts including her husband and children. She details initial misconceptions, study of papal history, baptism in 1951, and ongoing teaching work at St. John's Parish. The piece urges distributing Catholic literature to ignite similar conversions.
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Martin J. Cloonan
Dawes
W.va
Mrs. Cloonan
Christ's
St. Peter
Cen
Patrick
Dennis
Barbara
Boniface
Glenna Tackett
Raymond Brummett
John Drew
Olney
Ill
George Lally
Confraternity of Christian Doctrine
St. John’s
Belle
W. Va
God
U. S. Franciscan Named Bishop of Brazilian See
Father James A. Schuck O F M an American Franciscan missionary is named Titular Bishop of Avissa and Prelate of the Prelature Nullius of Cristalandia in Goias Brazil. He helped found missions in 1943 and becomes head of a vast rural territory erected in 1956 by Pope Pius XII. born January 17 1913 in Trevorton Pennsylvania.
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Vatican City
Brazil
James A. Schuck
O.F.M
Avissa
Cristalandia
Goias
Schuck
Holy Name
Franciscan Order
New York
New Jersey
Elect Schuck
Trevorton, Pa
Francis
Golden Jubilee of Chair of Unity Octave 1959
GARRISON N Y The 50th anniversary of Father James Francis Watson known as Father Paul and his Friars of the Atonement will be marked with the Chair of Unity Octave from January 18 to 25 1959. He founded the Octave in 1908 and Graymoor Monastery in 1899. The Octave had been observed in 1908 and 1909 when Father Paul led his community into the Catholic Faith.
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Garrison
N.Y
James Francis Watson
Father Watson
Father Paul
Unity
Union of Christendom
Friars of the Atonement
Graymoor
Franciscan priest from Shamokin and St. Bonaventure
Agnes Kurtz Schuck and the priest attended Catholic schools in Shamokin Pennsylvania. He joined the Franciscans at St. Joseph's Seminary Callicoon New York in 1929. Ordained in Washington in 1940. He served on the faculty of St. Bonaventure University New York for two years.
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Agnes Kurtz Schuck
Shamokin
St. Joseph’s Seminary
Callicoon
N.Y
Washington
St. Bonaventure University
St. Bonaventure, N Y
All-American Catholic College Football Team Emerges
Notre Dame star Pietrosante named top backfield man and Holy Cross ace Jim Healy chosen lineman of the year. Eddie Anderson of Holy Cross earns coach of the year as Catholic college grid selections feature Monty Stickles Eli Ecuyer Don Allard Cliff Poirier Bruce Maher John Dingens Tom Greene Gene O Pella Emil Karas and other 24 major Catholic programs represented by coaches.
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Brooklyn
Nick Pietro- Santo
Notre Dame University
Jim Healy
Holy Cross College
Tablet
Pietrosante
Healy
Eddie Anderson
Monty Stickles
Eli Ecuyer
Don Allard
Cliff Poirier
Boston College
Bruce Maher
John Dingens
University of Detroit
Tom Greene
Gene O’pella
Villanova University
Emil Karas
University of Dayton
Quote from Kempis on progress and humility
A reflective line notes that true progress arises only when one feels inferior to all. It emphasizes humility as a guiding stance over self-congratulation. The phrase frames a perennial moral insight attributed to Kempis.
Christmas in Modern Latin America
St Nicholas speaks Spanish as mail to the North Pole grows. Latin families still favor Baby Jesus and Nativity creches, while Santa and decorations gain in cities of Mexico Cuba and Puerto Rico, keeping the Nativity central in tradition.
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Latin America
St. Nicholas
Jesus
St. Peter
Santa Claus
Mexico
Cuba
Puerto Rico
New Chapel Consecrated On Site of Martyr's Home
Auxiliary Bishop David Cashman of Westminster consecrated a new chapel in London built on the site of St. Thomas More’s home. A tablet on the street wall bears his portrait and notes More left that house for trial imprisonment and martyrdom in 1535.
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Martyr
London
David Cashman
Westminster
St. Thomas More
Henry VII
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