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• W113400338 abstract "Music, drinks, food, and shows are part of what Reno, Nevada-The Biggest Little City in the World-offers to visitors and to residents. Until American divorce laws loosened during the 1960s and 1970s, the city was also the divorce capital of the United States. After waiting out the six-week residence required for a divorce, disgruntled spouses-often society women-could secure a divorce in if they swore that they intended to remain a resident. Going to Reno became a synonym for securing a divorce. But games of chance, rather than quick divorce or lavish entertainment, have given its principal fame. Like visitors to Las Vegas, tourists come to this city on the Truckee river to play slot machines, video games, table games, and to bet on races. The variety of gambling opportunities is endless. People can play nickel, dime, quarter, half-dollar, dollar, or five-dollar slot machines. They can play mini-baccarat, lucky-strike keno, roulette, craps, double exposure, or omaha. They can play video poker machines, single-deck games, double-deck games, six deck shoes, 7 card stud, 7 card hi-low, bad beat poker, let it ride stud poker, Caribbean stud poker, pai gow poker, or fortune pai gow poker. They can even bet on greyhound racing in Florida. With casinos larger than many cathedrals, and with the biggest establishments open twenty-four hours a day seven days a week, gambling in has become a kind of religion-one with a goddess named Luck and with many holy days of obligation. Thus a visitor who decided to attend the 7 A.M. weekday mass just before Thanksgiving, 1997, at the Roman Catholic cathedral church in went with some expectations. He half-expected to find the downtown congregation full of croupiers, uniformed workers, and gamblers who had spent a long night at the casinos. The reality proved a bit different. Operated in sequence by several religious orders, and since 1984 by the Franciscan Fathers, the cathedral church of St. Thomas Aquinas sits in the commercial area of Reno, adjacent to the casinos and pawnshops that dot downtown Reno. On this November morning in 1997, a near-by casino displays a sign offering a 46-ounce Margarita $3.95. Another advertises $4.99 dinner specials. $3.99 steak and eggs. $5.99 steak and shrimp. Wheel of Fortune Slots are here announces a sign in another establishment. Consecrated in 1908 (its predecessor buildings had existed since the 1870s) and serving both as a cathedral and as a parish, St. Thomas Aquinas was constructed with substantial use of materials from Nevada. Copper mined by Nevada miners covers its entrance doors. Adorned with carvings of supporting angels, its high altar is made of Nevada stone. A stained-glass window reads Our Lady of the Snows, Patroness of Nevada, Pray for Thy Children. Built in the Italian Renaissance style, with apse added, the red-brick church originally served a largely Italian and Basque congregation. The first Italian-American saint, Mother Cabrini, visited the cathedral shortly after it was consecrated. Inside, the church has a vestibule with three doors leading into a sanctuary that holds twenty sets of pews. Bowls of holy water stand on either side of the center aisle. Traditional confessional booths occupy both sides of the entrance wall, but a post-Vatican II Penance Room has been added at one end of the vestibule. Entered through a door with a window, this penitential room contains a kneeler, a screen, and two chairs. Unlike the cathedral's old confessionals, it is bright and airy, with windows to the outside on two sides. The interior walls of the church contain a large mural of biblical and church-historical scenes painted by two artists who fled Communist Hungary, a statue of St. Thomas Aquinas, and two sets of the stations of the cross rendered by a local artist. Flanked by green plants, the high altar holds four candles. A statue of Christ the King dominates the crucifix above it. …" @default.
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