Word: catholicization
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After progressively moving through the ranks of the Catholic Church, Law landed at Archbishop of Boston in 1984.
The Catholic who realized his calling as a high school student and devoutly stuck by it through his Harvard years, realized his dream in the Church and met his public downfall in its flaws.
Maddox said that at first, she didn’t feel as thoughs she quite fit into the social puzzle of wealthier and more connected girls. Unlike them, she had grown up as a pious Catholic, Irish-Italian American who regularly went to church.
In high school, she won the Bridgewater Catholic Women’s Club scholarship, but her priest was reluctant to write the check, fearing that Maddox would be influenced by Harvard professors to give up on religion.
On that Ash Wednesday, the Catholic Archdiocese of Boston granted a special dispensation to the many Catholics who were unable to get to a church. Despite the weather and the dispensation, about 450 people attended the noon Ash Wednesday Mass at St. Paul’s Catholic Church in Harvard...