Last January Rev. Julius Arnold Velasco, 31, rector of St. John's Church (Episcopal) of Dayton, Ky., journeyed to Ellicott City, Md. There, by a Catholic priest, he was married to a Catholic girl, blonde Catherine Rogers. Quickly, back in Kentucky, rumor began to spread that Rector Velasco had broken a promise. His ecclesiastical brethren in the diocese of Lexington, Ky., had known of his courtship. Therefore, before his ordination, he had been asked by a committee of the diocese to pledge that in the event of his marrying a Catholic, he would...
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