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Article: Harry John was not your average American Catholic. (Cover Story)
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- National Catholic Reporter
- Article date:
- September 17, 1993
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Copyright informationCOPYRIGHT 1993 National Catholic Reporter. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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But the Miller Brewery heir showed how exotic life can get when religion and money mix
Waiting to pay their respects to the family of the deceased and pass by his open casket, the mourners stood in a long line that reached through the huge main doors of Gesu Church and stretched out into the bitterly cold night in Milwaukee last December. By any measure, it was an extraordinary gathering, the Rorschach of Harry John's life.
There were teenage Vietnamese Dominican novices with simple wooden crucifixes around their necks and Scheinstott nuns in starched headpieces; black Carthusian monks in coarse brown robes and liberal Jesuits in sports clothes; liberation ...
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