Hundreds of thousands of Roman Catholics in the armed forces wear religious medals. So do many Protestants and Jews. For wartime purposes, some medal manufacturers have given their wares a masculine touch by making them larger and heavier.
Fortnight ago Father Hugh Calkins, a leader of Chicago's perpetual novena of Our Sorrowful Mother, himself a dispenser of a popular medal of the same name, thought it time to say a few words on the subject. In his midget monthly, Novena Notes, he declared:
"Superstition comes from ignorance or fear. . . . During...
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