Word: setons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Neurotic faith is not just a laymen's problem. Dr. Leo H. Bartemeier of Baltimore's Seton Psychiatric Institute suggested that ministers should be "as free as possible from delusions about their own omnipotence." And the Rev. Edward S. Golden, secretary of the United Presbyterians' Inter-Board Office of Personnel Services, argued that "there is a crisis in health with moral, physical and emotional manifestations among American clergy." One sign of widespread disturbance among ministers, he noted, is that of the nation's 8,500 United Presbyterian clergymen on pastoral assignment, 3,000 want to leave...
...over a parish, often to be overprotected by congregations that look up to them as Christ figures. Usually the symptoms of emotional distress are evident long before neurotic clerics are ordained, suggested Psychiatrist Robert J. McAllister, a consultant to Catholic University. Reporting on 100 hospitalized Catholic priests at the Seton Institute, he pointed out that 77 had serious emotional problems as seminarians; 32 ultimately became alcoholics. McAllister' added that a conflict between their desire for perfection and their basic needs and desires can drive men to leave the priesthood entirely: "Suddenly their own humanity breaks through and they...
...President of Seton Hall University, a Catholic school in South Orange, N.J., refused yesterday to allow the undergraduate newspaper there to resume publication before April 2, despite the election of a new executive board earlier...
...Setons settled down in a fashionable home near the Battery. But by the turn of the century, William Seton's fortune had collapsed, and so had his health. On their doctor's advice, they went to Italy in 1803, where Seton hoped to recoup his health and financial losses. There he died, leaving Betty Seton. at 29, a nearly penniless widow with five children...
...Coffee. Busy, bird-like Mother Seton was a woman both stern and sentimental. As a girl, she was wildly eclectic in her spiritual life, combining deep faith in the Episcopal Church with love for such scandalous deists as Voltaire and Rousseau. Tough when she had to be. Mother Seton fought priestly superiors who crossed her path, alternately teased and bullyragged her two sons. When one of her nuns failed to receive Communion because she had broken her fast with a cup of coffee. Mother Seton showed little sympathy. "Ah, my dear," she said, "how could you sell your...