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Show JUDGE LINDSETS RELIGION. At different .times, we. have noted, items in-some -of the Catholic papers stating that Judge Lindsey of Denver was a . Catholic. Judge Ben B. Lindsey has a national reputation in connection with the juvenile court idea. If he were a Catholic, we should be glad to include him in our gallery of "Who's Who Among American Catholics," but the following letter from Judge Lindsey, under date of March 9, will indicate that he is not a Catholic. The letter, however, contains 'some interesting details de-tails as to the judge's religious heredity: "To the Editor: Owing to much work, my correspondence cor-respondence is behind, but I received your kind letter let-ter and a copy of the Citizen. You certainly have a splendid paper. I have had a. rather peculiar religious re-ligious experience. My father was an Episcopalian and a convert before he died to the Catholic Church. My nether was a very devaut Methodist. All of my people were 'Protestant. I was baptized in the Catholic . Church, but when I was a small boy I was sent to live with my Protestant relatives. My father died,' and the result was. that I drifted very much religiously, and while I have a deep reverence for the Catholic Church, and have been claimed by a great many because of. my father's experience, I cannot say that I am a Catholic. Many of my best friends, however, are the Catholic clergy and people of Denver, who have been perhaps the staunchest supporters 1 iiave had, since one of the fights I made in the legislature was for a bill requiring dependent de-pendent children of Catholic parents to be put in homes of . people who were Catholics. . "With kindest regards, I am, sincerely yours. "BEX B. LIXDESY." Catholic Citizen, Milwaukee. |