Religion: Monastery

William Henry Cardinal O'Connell, Roman Catholic archbishop of Boston, never goes to the movies, rarely has films exhibited in his Commonwealth Avenue home, and on those infrequent occasions seldom applauds or sees a picture to its end. Last fortnight, however, Cardinal O'Connell beat palm on palm while sitting through a film brought to his house by George Kraska, manager of Boston's highbrow Fine Arts Theatre, and Rev. Michael Joseph Ahern, S. J., one of New England's ablest Jesuits. The picture was Monastery, a European religious documentary film, the better part of which...

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