Word: priesthoods
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Edward Mooney was born in Mt. Savage, Md. and grew up in Youngstown, Ohio, where he starred both in his studies and on the baseball diamond. Following graduation from Baltimore's St. Mary's Seminary, he was selected to continue his studies for the priesthood at the North American College in Rome, where he was ordained in 1909. For the next 13 years he served his church as an educator, briefly had a parish in Youngstown, then was called to Rome as Spiritual Director of the North American College. So impressed with him was Cardinal Gasparri, then Secretary...
...prison. His character is as shapeless as the slops they issued him at the prison gate, and his condition as hopeless as the five shillings in his pocket. Slowly, as the Irish say, it is "let on" that Peter was a "dismantled Roman wreck," having studied unsuccessfully for the priesthood; that his father was a seaman, his mother a pious termagant, his brother a "great, rearing, clumsy bucko." Why was Peter in jail? The question involves a real novelist's art-the reverse of the whodunit, which is to disclose the crime and disguise the motive. Halfway through...
...third son of a Milwaukee grocer of German descent, he showed an early leaning to the priesthood (his sister, a nun, remembers that at the age of five he used to play at saying Mass with a cloth over an old table and a glass of water for the chalice of wine). In his early parish at Waukesha, Wis., and later as bishop of Superior, Wis., Meyer was more noted as an able administrator than as a fighter for causes, has rarely committed himself on social issues...
Married. Marie Dionne, 24, one of four survivors of the famed Canadian quintuplets, who in 1953 entered a convent to become a nun, but left before taking her permanent vows; and Florian Houle, 38, onetime student for the priesthood, and now a clerk at the Quebec Superior Court; in Montreal. Of the living quints, only Yvonne is now unmarried...
...ordained priest, and two years later went back to Russia, then in the throes of the revolution, where he served two years as pastor in Tiflis. One day he met an old woman named Djuga-shvili, who told him proudly: "My son once studied for the priesthood, too." Her son's other name: Stalin...