Word: priesthoods
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...seminarian who studied for the priesthood for four years, and I ultimately left the seminary because of "chancery Catholicism." This sort of thing sorely hinders a priest's proper Christian ministry in the community. It also hinders the individual Catholic's relationship with God, so much so that he is more afraid of the "System" than...
...Celibacy is possible; no serious psychologist pretends otherwise," states Hermand. Having himself entered the seminary at 13, Hermand makes the point that many candidates for the priesthood take the vow of chastity while their manhood is still dormant...
...easy to get -as Father Beck's experience shows. Born and raised a Lutheran, he studied at Concordia Seminary in St. Louis, served a parish in Teaneck, N.J., for seven years. In 1954, Beck and his wife became Catholics. Convinced that he had a vocation to the priesthood, Beck went to Germany and in 1956 received permission to enter the seminary at Mainz. But before he could be ordained, Pope Pius XII told Beck in a 1957 interview, he would have to find a bishop who would promise to support him. Bishop Mark Carroll of Wichita, Kans., stepped...
...ascetic and humble man, Mclntyre entered the priesthood late in life. Born in Manhattan, the son of an invalided former city employee, he attended public high school, City College and Columbia University at night, while working days for a Wall Street brokerage firm. At 29, he turned down the offer of a partnership to enter St. Joseph's Seminary at Yonkers, N.Y. He was ordained in 1921, spent two years as a curate in a Manhattan church, then put his financial skills to work as an administrative officer in New York's archdiocesan chancery. So successful...
...Iacocca never wavered from early youth in his desire to go into the auto business-with Ford. For him, it was something like wanting to join the priesthood. "I suppose it was partly because my father had always been greatly interested in automobiles," he says, "and because I was influenced by family friends who were Ford dealers." Always a top student, he was felled by a seven-month bout with rheumatic fever as he entered high school, began to study even harder when he was forced to give up sports. To let off some of his competitive energy, he turned...