Word: clerical
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Cleric's Prayer. A widower for 20-odd years, Father Gibson lives alone in a small apartment. He rises at 4 each morning to spend an hour or so in prayer. He prays and thinks in terms of the present day only, never worries about tomorrow ("God hasn't given me tomorrow yet"). By 7, he is at the Shelter, where he celebrates Mass in the small, blue-walled chapel. Each night he is home...
...quarter-century he has cracked a sharp episcopal whip over his big (252 parishes), rich (1944 income, $4,000,000) diocese of New York. Last week the 79-year-old British-born cleric, who remained stubbornly unbudging two years ago when he Church's General Convention voted compulsory retirement for bishops at 72', announced that he would retire next fall...
...more obvious explanation of Spellman's rise in the Church is that he has qualities the Church wants in its leaders. The hierarchy is always eager to make the most of its personnel, and an industrious young cleric can be sure that a strain of humility will not handicap his rise in the Church Militant. His superiors will see that he learns the art of patience. When Rome first suggested to Cardinal O'Connell that Spellman join the Vatican Secretariat, the Cardinal, who did not always look kindly upon the rising young cleric, kept Spellman in suspense...
...Rumania), short, bustling, bespectacled Theodore Andrica (rhymes with Eureka), 45, knows the immigrant's nostalgia for the old country. Broke when he landed in the U.S. in 1921, he worked as an orderly in a Buffalo hospital, was ordained a Russian Orthodox priest in Erie, Pa., changed from cleric to bank clerk, drifted to Cleveland...
This struggle against the King and authoritarian regimes sobered Damaskinos, tempered his enthusiasms. In the monastery Damaskinos developed his only hobby: a friend from Chicago sent him a portable harmonium, and the lonely cleric, with his pet goat and dog beside him, learned to pick out the weirdly beautiful Gregorian chants...