Word: priesthoods
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...come to the Monastery intend to enter the priesthood," Father Williams noted. "Laymen are encouraged to study toward this end, but there is a real place in the Society for consecrated laymen, who, for one reason or another, feel no vocation for the priestly life...
...much longer will the leading Protestant universities put up with such treacherous attacks by members of the Catholic priesthood as Dominican Dr. Hugh Halton has been carrying on at Princeton for the past three years [TIME...
Five years later, in 1917, Ronald Knox resigned and entered the Roman Catholic Church. "Authority played a large part in my belief," he said later. In his new church, too, Knox was ordained to the priesthood, and soon he was back at Oxford, this time as a Catholic chaplain. For 13 years there-boom years among undergraduates for Marx, sex and sneering at authority-wispy Father Knox made his rooms a gathering place for the university's most glittering wits. It was then that he began producing smoothly turned detective novels, e.g., The Body in the Silo, The Viaduct...
...Nonsense." Franz Renn-Rain, 72, an Austrian who years ago abandoned his study for the priesthood to sell art in Italy, denied that he was "the master archaeological fence." Flapping about the palace in a stained silk dressing gown, he mourned: "Nonsense, nonsense, it's a small collection of little things. So I let my friends come to look at my collection. So I let them buy a few things. So I export something to America once in a while. What is all this talk about Etruscan antiquities? Nobody can prove the Etruscans even existed...
...road to Damascus. The real sinners are those who know God but love only themselves or their illusions. The killing of Robert Lagave brings with it a moment of shocked awareness that soon fades: Paula weeps and then marries a neighboring landowner; Pierre sighs and goes on to the priesthood, confident of his heavenly credentials; Elisabeth remembers longest, but she, too, slides back into the equable round of days in which even God is little more than "numbness and sleep." These, says Mauriac, are the real dead-not Robert Lagave...