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YES SIR! a pin-up does something to you.

Since I have just completed a new chapel I will try and get off a few a few letters tonight.

Easter Greetings from the South Pacific

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,…

Remember the Doolittle raid over Tokio?

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.

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

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.

Now that I am a veteran of one week at this rugged over-pea life I have time for a few lines back home.

Nothing new!