Word: priesthoods
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...store, worked one summer as a conductor on the local trolley line. At New York's Jesuit-run Fordham University he was a conscientious but hardly brilliant student, a debater, and an earnest poet. Only on the eve of graduation did he decide to enter the priesthood. Ordained in 1916, he went to Rome as translator for a Boston bishop in 1925, so impressing Pope Pius XI that he was recruited to the staff of the Papal Secretariate of State, the first American priest to serve in that office...
...this intuition he uses Biblical sources to interpret Moses' as a revolutionary leader. As might be expected, the evidence is inconclusive, the argument intriguing: Moses appears as a Weberian patriarch, doing his ferocious best to keep the means of administration under his own control, finally establishing a traditional priesthood to lead the people to piety...
Died. Ruth Fuller Sasaki, 74, Zen Buddhist scholar and first Westerner admitted to the Rinzai Zen priesthood; of a heart attack; in Kyoto, Japan. She began to follow Zen after a 1930 sightseeing trip through China and Japan and migrated to Japan in 1950 to open a study center. Convinced of her sincerity, the Zen Buddhists later ordained her as a priestess in charge of her own temple...
Father James Kavanaugh, an angry priest who wrote a book bitterly attacking the Roman Catholic Church, last week announced that he is finally resigning from the priesthood and intends to get married. Coincidentally, British Theologian Charles Davis, an angry ex-priest who left the church and got married, has now written a book bitterly attacking Roman Catholicism...
Speaking to a student group at the University of Notre Dame, Father Kavanaugh, whose A Modern Priest Looks at His Outdated Church (TIME, July 7) has sold 140,000 copies, announced that he had submitted his resignation from the priesthood to his bishop, the Most Rev. Alexander Zaleski of Lansing. "I'm tired of beating my head against the wall," Kavanaugh said, explaining that his resignation was a protest against the failure of bishops to enact the reforms proposed by the Second Vatican Council...