George Cardinal Mundelein nearly a month ago garnered the million communions he had promised the Pope in exchange for signaling Chicago as the Eucharistic sanctuary; spoke there of Abraham Lincoln.
With naive enthusiasm he announced that Lincoln was not, as some said, unfriendly to Catholicism, but that "when Father St. Cyr came to say mass for Lincoln's stepmother, Mr. Lincoln would prepare the altar himself. Indeed with his own hands Abraham Lincoln carved out six wooden chairs to be used at the mass. And if I could only find those chairs, I'd...
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