Word: recruiters
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...lying prone on the altar of Holy Name Cathedral on a recent Saturday were a testament to the Catholic Church's long push to recruit a new generation of priests from around the world as seminary enrollment in the U.S. sagged. Four of the men hailed from Poland, three from Kenya, two each from Mexico and Peru, and one from Tanzania. But of all these men before Cardinal Francis George, leader of the third largest archdiocese in the nation, the one that really stood out is Fr. Michael Scherschel, 42, who took his vows that day just a few miles...
...congregants are white, with 40% Hispanic or Latino, 4% African American, and 4.5% listed as Asian or "other." So just as the Church went on a global hunt for priests in years past to tend to the flock in their own language, the archdiocese here is trying to recruit a U.N. corps of clergy by mining local neighborhoods filled with Korean and Chinese, Urdu, Hindi and Polish, French, German, Italian and all manner of Spanish and African dialects...
...course it’s important to recruit, but we’ll have a full team next year, which is nice,” Litvak said. “She seems to have known a lot of the players, even [high school] juniors who were looking at colleges. She was a coach before, so she understands the value of recruiting...
Most movie directors have individual contracts with their studios; the Pixar directors are employees of the company, contributing on all studio projects. The so-called Brain Trust--Lasseter, Bird and Stanton, along with directors Lee Unkrich, Bob Peterson, Brenda Chapman, Pete Docter and Gary Rydstrom and one recent recruit, Little Miss Sunshine writer Michael Arndt--convenes regularly to spitball ideas and, Lasseter says, "help one another make these films. We're very honest...
CHARLES TAYLOR, former Liberian President, in a letter announcing that he will not attend his war-crimes trial at a U.N.-backed special court. Taylor is charged with incitement to recruit child soldiers and to commit murder and rape...