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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 06, 1949
Page
10
James Marlow reports on a Czech priest jailed after refusing last rites to a communist woman in Slovakia. The piece contrasts church law on excommunication with communist controls and outlines Catholic views on mortal sin and repentance, ending with an unrelated note about a snake escape aboard a New York bound ship.
The article argues that Catholic teaching holds God minds thoughts at death and that excommunications of Catholic Communists reflect divine will. It claims priests cannot validly grant last rites under duress, since genuine repentance would be absent and God would see through coercion.
A reader asks about church views on the old woman who returned to the party after regretting her actions and being jailed. If she dies unrepentant, she faces damnation. if she repents before death, she can still save herself. The second query provides U S population figures from 1949: United States 148,902,000. District of Columbia 898,000. Washington Metropolitan District civilian population 1,205,220 in 1947. monthly estimates follow.
The Civil Aeronautics Board reported that total passenger miles flown by domestic and international American air carriers exceeded 8 billion in 1948. The passenger fatality rate stood at 1.3 per 100 million passenger miles, the lowest on record, with the prior low being 1.6 in 1946.
Four arches support the foot the medial longitudinal arch the transverse arch the lateral arch and the midfoot instep arch. Bats do not build nests they cling upside down by hind feet claws from walls ceilings caves hollows or buildings. The young bat clings to its mother until independent.
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