Word: philadelphia
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...child's death was a bitter milepost in the life of an extraordinary woman-a life that began in a fashionable, upper-class Episcopal home in Philadelphia, ended in an English Roman Catholic convent, and may be crowned by beatification by the Roman Catholic Church. In The Case of Cornelia Connelly (Pantheon; $3.75), British Roman Catholic Author Juliana Wadham brings back to life a reverberating scandal that burst upon the U.S. and Britain in 1849, when the Catholic Church was struggling to re-establish itself in England...
...young Episcopal clergyman from Philadelphia, Pierce showed intense ambition from the time he married wellborn, well-educated Cornelia Peacock in 1831. He took her to Natchez, Miss., where he had been offered a parish, preached there four years, then abruptly resigned his pastorate and announced his intention of becoming a Catholic. While admitting misgivings ("I once thought all Catholic priests instruments of the Devil"), Cornelia wrote to her sister: "I am ready at once to submit to whatever my loved husband believes to be the path of duty." The path was clear to Pierce: it led to Rome. Cornelia...
...sniping from Pierce (he continued to flail the Catholic Church until his death at 80 in 1883), Cornelia enlarged her order. The society spread throughout England, and in her lifetime chapters were opened in France and the U.S., where the society now runs 36 schools, including Rosemont College on Philadelphia's Main Line. In 1879, at 70, Cornelia Connelly died, leaving for church investigators now weighing claims for her sainthood a revealing passage written before she became a postulant: "It is for the glory of God that we should be saints . . . God wills me to be a saint...
...question of Worthy's draft record was raised last week during testimony by Robert Cartwright, a high State Department official. Cartwright said that a man named William Worthy pleaded guilty in the U.S. District Court at Philadelphia in June, 1944 to charges of failing to report to a camp for conscientious objectors. Cartwright also said that this man had served one day in jail and later had gone to the camp...
Schedule: April 20, Dartmouth; 27, Princeton; May 4, Cornell, Penn at Philadelphia; 11, at Yale; 18, Heptagonal Championships at New Haven; 31, IC4A Championships at New York; June 22, Harvard-Yale vs. Oxford-Cambridge at the Stadium...