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Donor Cornelia Sullivan re ects on having Catholic Extension in her heart
Child’s play
hosts and tabernacles. ey had all that.”
ose “Father Peter cutouts” may just have been fun child’s play, but they created a place
in Sullivan’s heart for Catholic Extension. Now, at age 96, she’s a longtime donor.
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Extension magazine — at the time still aiming to be
a Catholic version of the Ladies Home Journal — and she vaguely recalls
her mother reading it. But what she remembers quite clearly are the chil-
dren’s pages.
“One thing that caught
my attention was that they had a section for children,” she said. “It had paper cut-
outs of priests, and they had all the di erent vestments a
priest would wear. You cut them out, and there were little tabs to put them on
the gure. ey had an altar
and chalices and
She believes her mother stopped receiving Extension mag- azine during the Great Depression when her father lost his job as
an engineer at Dodge Motors. It wasn’t until decades later that Catholic Extension would once again enter Sullivan’s life.
charity
ornelia Sullivan remembers Catho- lic Extension from her childhood back in the 1920s. Her family received
Growing up, Sullivan enjoyed the children’s section of Extension magazine. This September 1944 issue shows a girl playing with the “Father Peter cutouts.”