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...story of Rev. Emmett McLoughlin [TIME, Dec. 13] will shock many more than the residents of Phoenix . . . Fortunately, however, such apostasies as Father McLoughlin's are rare, and we still have our Ronald Knoxes and Fulton Sheens to compensate...
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...
Soon young Father McLoughlin began to be almost as well-known in Phoenix as the mayor. He organized a slum clearance campaign and wangled federal funds for three major housing projects. He started a church for poor people in a vacant store. Then he began to crusade for a hospital for the poor. He persuaded Mrs. Roosevelt to make a special trip to Phoenix on behalf of the project, and in 1943 the 232-bed St. Monica's Hospital was built, at a cost of more than $500,000. Father McLoughlin served as superintendent. He was also chairman...
...formalities. Mostly he dressed in slacks and a sports shirt, and wore his priest's habit only on formal occasions. Learning that a child who died in St. Monica's might have been benefited by Mexican scorpion serum, which was then barred by customs regulations, Father McLoughlin deliberately smuggled some of the serum across the border...
...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...