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This postcard is oriented vertically and has an off-white background. On all sides there is a thin tan border. In the upper center of the postcard is a cat wearing a red Santa Claus jacket and hat, each with white fur trim. There is a thin band tied…

This postcard is oriented horizontally and has a white and pale blue background as the nighttime sky, complete with a crescent moon. In the bottom left corner, extending nearly to the upper left corner and to the bottom right corner is a border of…

This postcard is oriented is oriented vertically and has a solid white background, except for the shadow of the center figure. This figure wears a red Santa Claus coat, hat, and pants with large black boots. Each of these items is trimmed with white…

This postcard is oriented horizontally in a snowy and hilly landscape. In the upper right corner is a snow covered village. Sledding on a long, low, and wooden sled away from this village down a steep snowy hillside are five nearly identical figures…

The enclosed pictures were taken at my midnight Mass celebrated in the South Sea Islands on Christmas, 1943, by Chaplain William J. Menster of the United States Navy.

Today, on the threshold of another year, our thoughts are many and varied.

Today's feast is one of the Church's newer feasts, established to set forth a model and as a protection against certain beliefs and practices that would force God out of the modern home.

Remember the Doolittle raid over Tokio?

Lt. William J. Menster, a priest of the Archdiocese of Dubuque now serving as a Navy chaplain "Somewhere in the South Pacific," in a letter to the Very Rev. Msgr. Dorance V. Foley, Chancellor of the Archdiocese, "recalled years ago as a youngster,…

Easter Greetings from the South Pacific