Religion: Adman's Church

Alfred Emanuel Smith, Associate Justice Pierce Butler of the U. S. Supreme Court, Lawyer Francis Patrick Garvan, the four U. S. Cardinals, ten archbishops and ten bishops were among the distinguished Catholics invited to attend the dedication last Sunday of a handsome church in the suburbs of Detroit. Those who accepted beheld a Norman stone edifice blessed by Detroit's Bishop Michael James Gallagher. What made this ceremony notable was that the church is one of the few parish churches in the U. S. maintained on a layman's estate, perhaps the only one in...

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