Word: bishop
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bishop was something of a shock. In 1939, the Roman Catholics of Kansas City, Mo. hardly knew what to make of the intense, quiet-mannered man with reddish-brown hair and big ideas who came to preside over their...
...diocese. Bishop Edwin Vincent O'Hara began by poking so many irons into the fire (and looking to his flock to keep the blaze going) that when one prosperous Catholic businessman was asked whether he had been around to see the new bishop he replied: "I'd like to, but I can't. I can't afford it." Last week, in the big ballroom of Kansas City's Hotel President, 155 members of Bishop O'Hara's clergy gathered to cele brate his tenth anniversary in the diocese...
...celebration was a great deal more than a mere formality; the 90,000 Roman Catholics under Bishop O'Hara's jurisdiction have good cause to be grateful to him. In the ten years since his arrival, the diocese had built or bought 42 churches, 31 rectories, 24 colleges, high schools and grade schools, 14 convents, eight social centers, six hospitals and 25 other structures...
...Lordls vineyard. In 1913, when such causes were far from popular, he took the lead in pushing a minimum wage law through the Oregon legislature- one of the first com pulsory wage laws in the U.S. But perhaps his dearest concern of all, as both priest and bishop, is in developing his church in rural areas...
...farmer by profession," says Bishop O'Hara. He was born 68 years ago in a family of eight children on a farm near Lanesboro, Minn. After a chaplaincy in World War I, he was assigned to Eugene, Ore., where he founded the Na tional Catholic Rural Life Conference to promote Catholicism in rural U.S. Today the conference has 10,000 members and operates on a yearly budget of about $30,000. Explained Bishop O'Hara last week...