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...manor house where he had retired to translate the Bible was, as a wartime emergency, inundated with teen-age students from a London convent, and Ronnie was forced to spend most of his war listening to the confessions of hundreds of female adolescents. Being a great and humble priest, he undoubtedly bore this cross eagerly and brilliantly...
...prayer meetings in the National Guard Armory. "And they were not just the ordinary people," Billy said last week. "As near as I can tell, we averaged between 25 and 40 Congressmen and about five Senators a night." Among Billy's greatest supporters were Tennessee's Percy Priest and Missouri's O. K. Armstrong, who ushered at meetings, New Hampshire's Senator Tobey ("the warmest-hearted friend I had"), and Senator Hoey and the rest of the representatives from Billy's home state of North Carolina. Vice President Alben Barkley told Billy admiringly...
...Manhattan this week, Father LaFarge, 72, a tall, stooping man with a face of benign granite, got a dinner in his honor. The occasion: the celebration of his 25 years as an editor of the Jesuit weekly America (including four years as editor-in-chief). Besides fellow priests and other Catholic dignitaries, the program listed such non-Catholics as the Rev. Samuel McCrea Cavert of the National Council of Churches, Chancellor Louis Finkelstein of Jewish Theological Seminary and President A. Philip Randolph of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters. They were all friends of a priest who has been...
...granddaughter of Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry, and a direct descendant of Benjamin Franklin. He grew up in a cultivated literary and artistic world not remarkable for its piety. Both his parents, however, were attentive Catholics, and from boyhood, as John LaFarge remembers, "the idea of being a priest came to me naturally." He did not let his secular education (Harvard '01) nor his promise as a concert pianist interfere. At 21, he went to Innsbruck to study for the priesthood...
...dream of Don Zeno Saltini, parish priest, was to found a community that would "return to the origins of Christianity after a lapse of 20 centuries." As a curate, he began by setting up lodgings for homeless children. In 20 years these grew into Nomadelphia-the "Town of Brotherhood," a settlement of 1,150 souls, most of them orphans under 15, outside the Italian city of Modena (TIME, June...