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Rates:1 year,$2.00;2 years,$3.50;   |  |\n|  |  |  |\n|  |  |  |\n|  | 3 years,$5.00;20c a copy.Re-entered as Second  \u003Cbr>Matter,November 5,1946,at the Post Office,New  \u003Cbr>N.Y.,under the Act of March 3,1879.Acceptan  \u003Cbr>mailing at special rate of postage provided for i   | -Class  \u003Cbr> York,  \u003Cbr>ce for  \u003Cbr>n Sec-   |\n|  |  |  |\n|  | tion 1108,Act of October 3,1917,authorized Ju  \u003Cbr>1918.Copyright,1949,by The Missionary Society  \u003Cbr>Paul the Apostle in the State of New York.   | ly 11,  \u003Cbr> of St.   |\n|  |  |  |\n\ndecember,1949  \nA Priest's bouse?Billy had to go right into that denand do bis stuf?What could the Boss be thinkingof taking that job?  \n# B.Blunt's Bewilderment\n\nJohn S.Kennedy  \nIt's a hard thing on a man when is also a man who all the days of his  \nhe gets to the age of fifty-seven and life,until just recently,had some  \nthen has to discard ideas that,sincepretty weird ideas about the Cath-the days he was in corduroy knee olic Church,and especially aboutpants,he has held to be as indis-Catholic priests.putable as the result of the Yankees-The Church was to him a sink ofDodgers series recently.Ideas,too,iniquity.He couldn’t have told youthat he has lived by.Can a manjust what iniquity is,much less whatstart over again when he is on thea sinkful of it would be like,butsunset slope of his sixth decade?Canthat's what he considered the Churchyou teach an old dog new tricks?  \nThe associate editor of the CatholicTranscript writes a perfect portrait ofthat universal character who has heardall kinds of nasty stories about priestsand then one day he meets one.Itshould never have happened.  \n## Priests Are Strange\n\nThat's what Billy Blunt is won-dering these days.Billy is a painter,a housepainter,and a good one.He  \nto be.The big cuss-like words made Billy dreaded having to tackle it,but  \nthen it would give him a chance towitness some of the atrocities towhich priests devoted their days.  \nthe thing all the more damning.The Church was tyrannical andmonstrously rich and foreign andgiven to mumbo-jumbo,so he hadbeen told.The Church was sinisterand idolatrous and criminal andcrooked,so he had heard.And be-ing a critical and fair-minded man,he believed it.  \nOn the first day,when he camewith his equipment,he was met atthe door by Father Kimball,a tall,athletic-looking man with a heartyvoice.Father Kimball bade h","cbCaimdRpGooWwci","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaimdRpGooWwci","pdf",2309491,52,"English","# Contents\n## B.Blunt's Bewilderment\n## Priests Are Strange\n## Capone's Henchmen—Yes\n## Wrong End of the Brush\n## Rather Tackle the Devil","[{\"question\":\"What prompts Billy Blunt’s skepticism about Catholic priests?\",\"answer\":\"Billy has absorbed many harsh stories and pamphlets that paint priests as tyrannical, rich, foreign, and criminal. 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