[NYer]

She remembers adult Catholics being encouraged to carry a card with them that said, “In case of an accident, please call a priest.”

Here in New York, catholics will have to resume this practice. The new Privacy Act, prevents hospitals from asking patients their religious affiliation. It is up to the patient to request a priest.

For those who arrive unconscious, knocking at death's door, they should be equipped with a card with the above words.

[NYer]

“It was fairly common for the first-born girl to be named after the Blessed Virgin,” she says.

At my grandmother's baptism, the priest asked the parents what name they had chosen. They responded Rita Marie. He baptised her Marie Rita.

[Pyro7480]

I think you're inviting a lot of discussion with this article ;-)

[Coleus]

Oh, for the good old days, I wish I was a part of it...>>

Here in New York, catholics will have to resume this practice. The new Privacy Act, prevents hospitals from asking patients their religious affiliation. It is up to the patient to request a priest.

For those who arrive unconscious, knocking at death's door, they should be equipped with a card with the above words.>>>

Great idea, I will write my bishop about it and tell my pastor. A couple of weeks ago, I was standing next to my pastor when a hospital employee came up to him and said, "you know, so and so is in the hospital" he said thanks but he can't do anything unless the family calls and requests him to come.

What happens to the people who have no families in the area? Suppose you are on a trip or at college or anywhere in America on death's door and you need a priest? I'm surprised W supported such a law. Clinton wins again.

[katnip]

In our little neighborhood in Queens, there was a fish store that was only open on Fridays.

They sold raw fish or if you liked, the Italian lady who spoke no english would bread and fry the flounder and give you a bag of fried potatoes with it. Yummm....

[Loyalist]

PING.

Aren't you all happy that we can hold hands at the Our Father and sing Kumbaya?

You aren't?

Then what's wrong with you?

[redhead]

"For those who arrive unconscious, knocking at death's door, they should be equipped with a card with the above words.

In the good old days, anything that could be worn around the neck or carried in a pocket seemed to have "I AM A CATHOLIC. IN CASE OF AN ACCIDENT, PLEASE CALL A PRIEST."

[Litany]

I loved 40 hours procession.

[Salvation]

**It is up to the patient to request a priest.**

In Oregon this is true also.

[ultima ratio]

This article is so much hogwash. It is not true that children learn more about the faith today. In fact, there is a crisis of catechesis worldwide. It is ridiculous to say devotions were "nicer" back then or are more "user-friendly" than was the preconciliar Church. The test for user-friendliness is whether souls are being saved, not whether things are "nicer". If niceness is the measure, let's all become Quakers, for heaven's sake. The truth is, the Conciliar Church has been awash in a sea of corruption for forty years--and this is a pretty crappy reality and incredibly un-nice. Priests are less, not more, accessible, and they are less, not more, devout, and the sacraments are less, not more, accessible today, and so on down the line with every measure of spiritual well-being. As a result of a cataclysmic ecclesiastical decline, souls are universally in more, not less, danger of being lost, no matter how much bullhockey emanates from Rome these days. The entire article is the sheerest pollyanna-ish propaganda.

[narses]

Thanks for the post!