Religion: MANNERS IN CHURCH

How to behave in church is something which has to be learned. Not only outsiders but often confirmed believers are appallingly ignorant of church etiquette. It is common practice among Anglicans and Episcopalians to "kneel" by simply bending their heads. Noisiest, least well-behaved of all Catholic churchgoers are those in Eastern Orthodox nations. For U. S. Catholics, and for such of their friends as might be interested, two useful guides to church behavior were circulated last week.

> In Pittsburgh, Rev. Thomas Francis Coakley of swank, well-publicized Sacred Heart Church (which acquired an...

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