Word: priestly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...coronary thrombosis) came last week to Patrick Joseph Cardinal Hayes, 70. Roman Catholic Archbishop of New York since 1919, Prince of the Church since 1924, benign and white-haired "Cardinal of Charities" to the 1,000,000 Catholics of the world's richest archdiocese. Forty-six years a priest, but never pastor of a church. Cardinal Hayes was the first native-born shepherd (which he liked to call himself) of New York. His steady rise in the church he owed to scholarship, administrative ability and an association with his predecessor, John Cardinal Farley, to whom he was successively assistant...
Boys Town (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). In 1917 a young Omaha priest named Father Edward J. Flanagan borrowed $90 to start a unique U. S. institution: Boys Town, Neb., a home for waifs, run according to its founder's belief that there is no such thing as a bad boy. Lately grown acutely conscious of the problems of youth, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer naturally found in Boys Town cinematerial well up to the standard of that supplied by the Russell-Cotes naval training institution in England. The result, in this picture, is a companion piece to Lord Jeff, with Mickey Rooney...
Central character of the book is a mournful defrocked priest, who, as a result of his many beatings, humiliations, neuroses, pathetic romanticizing, venereal disease and terror, gradually reaches a mental state indistinguishable from his delirium tremens when drunk. The crew use him as a butt, let up on him slightly when he is half dead. Once they find a substitute outlet in a fantastic rat-hunt-the high point of Sandemose's grotesque humor...
Eight years ago. Rev. James J. ("Father Jimmy") Tompkins. a plain, grizzled parish priest, persuaded St. Xavier University to branch into the field of adult education. Father Jimmy had studied the famed cooperatives begun in Rochdale, England a century ago, had organized Nova Scotian miners and fishermen into study groups to learn about cooperatives...
...Joseph Cardinal Hayes, well-beloved Archbishop of New York, takes his summer ease. George MacDonald, rich Catholic layman, papal marquis, and friend of the Cardinal, gave St. Josephs a $5.000 pavilion on Lake St. Dominic. In that pavilion last week, Marquis MacDonald, Cardinal Hayes, three bishops, many a monsignor, priest and nun did honor to calm-faced Mother Polycarpa, 68. who has managed St. Josephs for 25 years as Mother Superior of the local Dominican community. It was the 50th anniversary of Mother Polycarpa's profession as a nun. So throughout the day, as Dominicans do on their jubilees...