Word: priesthoods
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...education soon became a problem. Her father, the aging Don Carlos de Borbon y Sicilia, recommended as Adan's tutor a young man of good but impoverished bourgeois family, the son of an infantry general. Tall, handsome Carlos Chias Ossorio, 22, a Basque who had studied for the priesthood but quit before taking vows, arrived at the farm with a shabby suitcase and a brown bundle of books...
Died. Count Konrad, Cardinal von Preysing-Lichtenegg-Moos, 70, since 1935 Roman Catholic bishop of Berlin; in Berlin. Bora into an ancient Bavarian family, strapping Count Konrad gave up a diplomatic career at 28 to enter the priesthood. As bishop of Berlin, under both Nazi and Communist rulers, he defiantly spoke up for Christian principles...
...college is able to toe the line between red and black mainly because the Jesuits, the principal teaching order of the priesthood, are allowed to accept...
...Barney of Scott City, Kans.: "The wishy-washy, lukewarm professed believers who insist movies are not wrong for Christians will now have a new argument." Henry Pucek of St. Louis, Mo. pointed to a recent magazine picture of Jane Russell in an "unChristian pose," and asked: "Is this the priesthood which Miss Russell feels that God has called...
...have the second largest mail volume in Philadelphia-next to Sears, Roebuck. "Promoters" are recruited to sign up and send in the annual dues of 25? each for a "band" of at least eight members. Part of the funds are used to help poor boys studying for the priesthood; most go to promote prayer to "Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal." Some promoters have enrolled more than 1,000 members (total membership runs into "several million") and the names of such medal recipients range from Pope Pius XII to Mae West...