By order of John J. O'Connor, Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Newark, N. J., the priests in the city parishes of that diocese gave up their automobiles. Parishioners gasped. Was it to humiliate the holy fathers that Bishop O'Connor had done this thing? Did he want to make fat priests lean, and sadden lean ones by . packing them into streetcars ? "Fishers of men" ... how could they be fishers if they were bundled, like sardines, in busses, elevated railways? Or perhaps, thought parishioners, Bishop O'Connor in-tended his edict as a...
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