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Show Parish and Parishioner. 1 A "parishioner" in New York has been dciine'l as one who lives within the limits of a given par" ish, or if living outside the limits, rents a pew m a given church. In either event the parishioner ean j command the services of the- priest of the churcii for the administration of the sacraments in ease of sickness and so forth. The old regulation w that a person was considered to be a parishiomr of a church if he attended the services regulars I even if he lived outside the' parish limits withe" : renting a pew. V In Philadelphia a "parishioner" is one who hvos j within the parish limits. lie must support it. rc" . ceive the sacraments in it. be attended in sicknes by one of its priests and be buried from its churc 1. Renting a pew in another parish or attending rT' ice there does not give a man any right in it 1r I exempt him from any obligation in his own pan A Catholic Citizen. 1 |