Word: priesthoods
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...world's proudest scientific centers, is the Pacific School of Religion. In last week's Christian Century, the school's dean, the Rev. Dr. Robert Elliot Fitch, gives his scientific friends and neighbors a gentle warning about the temptations that threaten the "new priesthood of science...
With this in mind, the first Paulists used the word "promises" instead of "vows" (of poverty and obedience). In fact, it amounted to the same thing, but the Paulists reasoned that a country still unused to the Catholic priesthood and devoted to individual liberty might take more kindly to a man who had made a promise than to one who had bound himself by a vow. The Paulists also went in heavily for American go-getting methods. In 1865 they established the first Catholic monthly in the U.S., the Catholic World (present circ. 25,000). They set up their...
...WLWL. They pioneered, among religious groups, the use of paid newspaper ads and car cards to attract converts, developed a nationwide mail-order lending library. Two Paulist trailer chapels operate throughout the South during the summer. Today the Paulists number 221 priests and about 150 students preparing for the priesthood. There are 27 Paulist houses, 24 of them...
Radical & Practical. Paulists are primarily proselytizers. Their backgrounds are likely to be more varied than those of most of the U.S. priesthood, and this enhances their effectiveness among Protestants and Jews. Examples: Father James B. Lloyd, 35, director of the New York Information Center, is the son of a Jewish father and a Catholic mother, both of them oldtime vaudeville headliners; Father Eugene Burke, professor of dogmatic theology at their Washington seminary, is a former Hollywood child actor...
...allowable latitude of the church." Says Kinsolving: "I held this belief throughout my theological training [Church Divinity School of the Pacific]. I also believe very firmly in Heaven. I can't prove any of this, nor do I know anyone who can. but I came into the priesthood to preach the truth as I see it. because I believed this is one of the few churches in which it could be done. And I'd keep on preaching it if I had to preach on the sidewalk...