World War One Army Chaplains

...riests would not be allowed to join until the Mexican-American War of 1846.[1] When the United States entered the war in 1917 there were only a handful of Catholic priests in the armed forces; however, by the end of the war that number grew to over 1,000.[2] Of those, 38

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Priest and Rosary Calm Tension – Oral History Interview

...ad a priest say a rosary in the vernacular in Spanish and then things would---and I still remember—one guy said, “All right, we know you’re a policeman because the kind of belt you’re wearing.” (laughter) I remember then a bottle going zoom—right past my ears. Things were getting panicky, you

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Centenarian Priest Speaks of Bells and Prayer – Oral History Interview

...the except below. http://www.pahrc.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/Monaghan-pt2.2-online-cip.wav We have to learn how to say prayers together. But we have to learn how to say the prayers individually, and hungrily. When children have problems we have to teach them to kneel down first and say their prayers. We want them to learn to find

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...the except below. http://www.pahrc.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/Monaghan-pt2.2-online-cip.wav We have to learn how to say prayers together. But we have to learn how to say the prayers individually, and hungrily. When children have problems we have to teach them to kneel down first and say their prayers. We want them to learn to find

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