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...other extraordinary scene is laid in a Franciscan monastery where three Army chaplains--Catholic, Protestant, and Jewish--seek refuge. War has passed by the monks, leaving them in their unreal tranquillity with no concern greater than the aim of converting the Protestant and the Jew. The monks are oblivious to the Catholic chaplain's attempts to reason with them; he begs them to accept the fact that the two "heathen" are just as religious in their own way--but the monks can only sit fasting in horrified silence...
Sandy-haired Emmett McLoughlin was born down by the railroad tracks in Sacramento. His Irish father & mother hoped he would become a priest. Emmett went from parochial school to seminary and was ordained priest in the Franciscan Order in 1933. The next year, he was assigned to Phoenix, Ariz...
...becoming a Franciscan, Emmett McLoughlin had taken vows subordinating his own will to the wisdom and spiritual judgment of his Superior. When that Superior, the. Rev. Gregory Wooler O.F.M., decided that the time had come for Father McLoughlin to leave his post, the 41-year-old priest made a rebellious decision...
...Superintendency of St. Monica's Hospital, the Presidency of its Board of Directors, and finally that I prepare to leave Phoenix. This, you insist, I must do if I am to remain in good standing as a Priest of the Catholic Church and a member of the Franciscan Order. As a reason for your demand you have contended that my activities are too material in nature and do not conform to the spiritual duties of the priesthood...
...Since apparently there can be no reconciliation between your decision that I give up my work in Phoenix and my resolve to continue it, I can reach only one conclusion:-! respectfully submit to you my resignation from the Franciscan Order and from the active ministry in the Priesthood of the Roman Catholic Church, as of December...