Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 March 1894 — WHITE IS A CATHOLIC. [ARTICLE]

WHITE IS A CATHOLIC.

He Was Educated For the Priesthood. But Did Not Enter It. Edward D. White, the new Justice of the Supremo Court, is a Catholic, and said to be the second member of that church ever appointed to this positionRoger B. Taney was tho other. Mr. White barely escaped, in early life, wearing the clerical robes. He was designated for the Roman priesthood by his parents, and his education in the parish schools of La Fourche, Mt. St. Mary’s,thf New Orleans Jesuit College and th« Georgetown University was scrupulouslj conducted with that end in view. Bui the future Senator and jurist did not fulfill the ambitions of his parents in a clerical way, although ho still adheres to th« church,