Word: priesthoods
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...penny he saved went into the school fund. He begged land and donations from friends, even sold the jeweled decoration that King Alfonso XIII had given him ("What use have I for this fancy bauble?"). He began a special class for future teachers, started his two nephews toward the priesthood. Today, 30 years after his death, Ave Maria still flourishes, run by 75-year-old nephew Pedro...
...Though markedly intelligent, he never caught hold at school. He quit at 15 and bounced about such places as Oxford, probably on allowance from his father, a piano manufacturer. At 26, after taking a few places as schoolmaster, he was converted to Roman Catholicism and entered preparation for the priesthood...
...Suddenly the cardinal realizes that a great injustice has been done to a man of extraordinary spiritual gifts. His mind flashes a connection between the problem of Rose and the problem of the papacy. As a last resort, he suggests that, if a Pope cannot be found within the priesthood, why not without? The cardinals are struck by the suggestion. An investigation is made. Rose is found worthy and is elected...
...soon had Mexicans of all classes eating out of his hand. Mexico's President Miguel Aleutian, a broad-minded politician, found him a congenial soul. Thousands of other Mexicans were flattered to find that O'Dwyer spoke Spanish (learned as a youth when he studied for the priesthood at Salamanca, Spain), that he liked bullfights, and was a charming and democratic host...
...residence before dawn. A ruddy-faced, cheerful man of 66, he got his start in life at 13 as a Wall Street runner; after 16 hard-working years in the financial district, he was offered a partnership in his brokerage firm, but turned it down to study for the priesthood (at 29). His business talents got him the job of assistant chancellor of the New York archdiocese; in 1941, he became auxiliary bishop and then coadjutor archbishop to his good friend Cardinal Spellman. In Los Angeles (with a Catholic population of 835,000), he has shown himself an excellent administrator...