Word: clericalization
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...boys were surprised at Father Sill's versatility. At Kent they were ready to believe that the restless little cleric could do anything. He was the school's founder, first headmaster; he presided over the discipline of the school, taught religion and English, supervised admissions; he coached football, hockey and crew;* he acted as chaplain, purchasing agent, business manager and dietician. For his boys, Father Sill prescribed his precepts of hard work and simple faith. Under the "Kent system," they made their own beds, waited on table, did most of the chores of the school. And under Headmaster...
...more than 2,000,000 TV viewers. The voice belonged to His Excellency the Most Reverend Fulton J. Sheen, auxiliary Bishop of New York, perhaps the most famous preacher in the U.S., certainly America's best-known Roman Catholic priest, and the newest star of U.S. television. Telegenic Cleric...
...conscience and his humor are always breaking the surface of convention. This unobtrusive cleric, when teaching at a seminary, left the high table to sit with the students, in protest at the inferior food they were getting. That is Knox, a modest and conscientious breaker of the peace...
...village priest, Don Abbondio, for example, is no stock cleric of the sort Balzac rolled off his nib, but the full-length portrait of a weak, well-meaning man of the world, truckling where he has to, lording it where he can, glad to do a kindness if you'll wait till after supper, parish-wise and heaven-foolish all day long. The wicked nun is not simply wicked, but a believable wretch who got that way partly through her own vanity, partly because she was hideously tricked by her father into a life she had no call...
...cleric talked a bit about his prison days (he was not maltreated, could say Mass, have visitors, books and newspapers), but he declined to be drawn into political topics ("My words might be misinterpreted...