Governor Arthur J. Weaver of Nebraska, Mason, Odd Fellow, Knight of Pythias, Woodman and Elk, and Mayor Richard Lee Metcalfe of Omaha, onetime editorial aide and good friend of the late arch-Protestant William Jennings Bryan, uttered the official welcome; Ak-Sar-Ben (Nebraska spelled backwards) coliseum provided a meeting place—when last week some 5,000 Roman Catholic archbishops, bishops, monsignori, priests and some 25,000 laymen assembled at Omaha for the first National Eucharistic Congress in 19 years. It was the greatest concourse of U. S. Catholics since the...
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