Word: priesthoods
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Judas Maccabeus was succeeded in 160 B.C. by his brother Jonathan, who eventually assumed the office of High Priest as well. Another theory identifies him as the Wicked Priest, since he outraged the religious purists by usurping the priesthood. Scholar Milik holds to this view, citing further the Scrolls' presentation of the Wicked Priest as having rebuilt Jerusalem and been captured and put to death; the known history of Jonathan satisfies both these conditions...
...according to the Jewish historian Josephus, was friendly to the anti-Hellenist Pharisees ("Separators") who clung to the old ways. Once Hyrcanus gave a dinner for their leaders, and after dinner invited their opinions on his rule, whereupon Eleazar bluntly told him he had no right to the High Priesthood. Promptly, John Hyrcanus switched his favor to the pro-Hellenistic Sadducees and the Pharisaic observances were forbidden. It is not hard to imagine, according to some scholars, that a strict-thinking band of Pharisees heard in outspoken Eleazar the voice of a prophet, and fled with him from Wicked Priest...
...next move was meat for scandal. In 1849, only a short time after he had tried unsuccessfully to get a cardinal's hat, he made another spectacular switch ("my allegiance to Rome was a culpable delusion"), sued Cornelia for resumption of his marital rights, and renounced his priesthood. He won the judgment; the Court of Arches ordered Cornelia to leave the convent and return to her husband or go to jail. For weeks Cornelia kept street clothes in her cell, ready to leave the country if Pierce or the authorities should try to seize her. Wild rumors...
Pianoplaying, sports-loving Archbishop Godfrey is the very model of a modern British divine. As a small boy in a working-class district, he pointed early for the priesthood. "I never considered anything else seriously," he says. He went then to Ushaw College, a Catholic seminary in northern England, afterwards to the English College in Rome. Ordained in 1916, he stayed in Rome long enough to take a double doctorate (in divinity and philosophy), then returned to Liverpool as curate of St. Michael's Church and began the slow climb up the hierarchical ladder...
...that Cardinal Griffin suffered his first heart attack when he was not yet twenty, while serving in the Royal Naval Air Service in World War I. He concealed it from the medical authorities at first, however, and avoided a discharge which he feared might prevent his acceptance for the priesthood...