Religion: Selling Vocations

One side of the revolving cutout, 4 ft. high, showed a pert teen-ager dressed for her high school prom; the other side pictured the same beaming lass clothed chastely in the religious habit of a nun. "This Could Be You," said the accompanying sign. The display, put up by Wisconsin's Cenacle nuns, was one of 60 competing exhibits that gave Milwaukee's municipal Auditorium and Arena the look of a spiritual bazaar. The occasion: Wisconsin's 16th annual Catholic Action convention.

The sales message, addressed to 10,122 Roman Catholic teen-agers from 15 states, came hard...

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