Word: priesthoods
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Leaflets in the Haystacks. At first, young Diem seriously considered the priesthood. But the example of his scholar father soon led him to the local French school of law and administration in Hué (where he graduated first in a class of 20), then into government service as a district administrator...
...comic-opera ways, Charlie Carmody is a gritty figure out of the immigrant past who clawed his way to wealth as a real estate operator. He can reminisce for hours on the joys of collecting, or extracting, the rent from hard payers. Charlie's son Hugh enters the priesthood, possibly in disgust at his father's tactics, but comes to hate his parishioners as much as he does his father, and dies of a hemorrhaging ulcer. Another son cravenly sponges off the old man. The eldest daughter becomes Charlie's spinster slave, while a spunkier daughter, Helen...
...gets it, but it is scarcely a plausible motivation for the book-length relationship between the two men. The ordeals of Father Kennedy's priesthood-"bleak moods" leading to compulsive drinking, as well as his rehabilitation-are equally unconvincing. Despite these lapses in motivation, Author O'Connor sympathetically conveys much of the priest's lot-the repetitions, the qualms, the drudgeries, the temptations, the loneliness, all adding up to a daily testing not glimpsed in the stereotypes of the Barry Fitzgerald-Bing Crosby order...
...best to persuade the Italian government to increase its annual subsidy to needy clergymen (currently from $500 to $2,700 annually, according to rank) and to set up hospitalization and social security benefits for all priests. The effort is not merely humanitarian. The number of new recruits to the priesthood has been falling off in Italy at an alarming rate. Milan, the richest, largest archdiocese in Europe, documents the decline. In 1860 Milan had 1,168,063 Catholics and 2,470 priests, or one priest for every 473 souls. Last year there were 2,235 priests and the population...
...Live. Some observers blame the decline in vocations to the priesthood on the rise in vocations to the so-called secular institutes-religious organizations such as Opus Dei, in which men and women may take vows of obedience (but rarely poverty or chastity) and go on living in the world. Since the late Pope Pius XII recognized their validity in 1947. secular institutes have mushroomed in Italy: from 1949 to 1958, more than 250 applied to the Vatican for formal recognition. "There is no doubt.'' said a Vatican prelate last week, "that these organizations have attracted many...