Word: priests
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...least in its early stages. There may have been an ascetic tradition in the monasteries, but Irish behavior at wakes, centuries before they had learned to sublimate with Guinness, was so obscene that the chroniclers (unfortunately) blush to describe it. We do know that at some point, a mock priest with a rosary of potatoes round his neck performed a mock wedding. Death and rebirth were usually celebrated together, until sharp poverty came along in the 17th century to make birth a curse, and sex no laughing matter...
Married. Jacqueline Grennan, 42, outspoken president of Missouri's Webster College and a former nun, who received dispensation to leave the Roman Catholic sisterhood in 1967; and Paul Joseph Wexler, 49, Jewish recording-company executive; he for the second time; in a private ceremony conducted by a Jesuit priest; in Webster Groves...
...would not want to be thought of as leaving the church simoly because it is declining at an accelerating rate, or on a petty, personal ground-Bishop Myers' changing his mind about officiating (after telling us to invite the clergy who would assist him), when a fine priest, and a dear friend, was perfectly happy to marry us, acting under Bishop Myers' written judgment as to my canonical marriageability. We had sound reasons for leaving the church, but they are not the two you noted; nor would we want others to leave on such grounds...
...Crumgold dropped no hints whatsoever, allowing his pupils to expect a repeat of the hourly. The boom was lowered, however, when Crumgold's assistant and grader, Father O'Malley, distributed the six-page exam with its three dozen identifications all drawn from the lectures. Dr Crumgold allowed the good priest full leeway as to the grading, with the result that every student passed; not one walked away from that course indifferent to the dangers of overconfidence...
Assessing his life, Father Conroy sees that he has been a sleepwalker among sleepwalkers, mending, patching, temporizing with a world that has been deteriorating as inexorably as his body. Playing priest like a character part, he has simply avoided living, allowing Ireland's failure elitists-the drunks, the loafers-to recognize in him their kindred spirit. He has not even been able to fail grandly. The one rebel he has deliciously identified with, a protégé who once ran away with the canon's silver, has ended up by becoming a trivial middle-aged success...