Word: phoenixed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Anna Roosevelt Boettiger, veteran newspaperwoman (Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Phoenix Arizona Times), currently collaborating on a radio commentary with her mother, leaped joyously back into the publishing swim as editor of the Woman, a national monthly magazine...
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...
...Very Reverend and Dear Father:" he wrote last week, "For a period of more than a year, correspondence has taken place between the Fathers of the Provincial Council and myself regarding my position in this hospital and my work in Phoenix...
...have insisted that I give up the 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...