Word: parish
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Following graduation from Baltimore's St. Mary's Seminary, he was selected to continue his studies for the priesthood at the North American College in Rome, where he was ordained in 1909. For the next 13 years he served his church as an educator, briefly had a parish in Youngstown, then was called to Rome as Spiritual Director of the North American College. So impressed with him was Cardinal Gasparri, then Secretary of State to Pope Pius XI, that in 1926, at the age of 44, Mooney was made a titular archbishop and appointed apostolic delegate, first...
...ardent baseball fan, Cardinal Mooney's own game was golf, which he used to shoot in the low 80s. Said he to one of his priests: "If your score is over 100, you are neglecting your golf-if it falls below 90, you're neglecting your parish...
...Political v. pastoral Pope. In Vatican history the two types have often alternated, and since Pius XII was a diplomat who never had a parish of his own, there may be pressure for a pastoral candidate. This may be offset by the desire of the Vatican's Curia cardinals to keep tight central control...
VENUS IN SPARTA, by Louis Auchincloss (280 pp.; Houghfon Mifflin; $3.50), is about a kind of hidebound Dr. Jekyll whose double life eventually destroys him. At 45, Michael Parish is a member of all the right New York clubs, a trustee of his Grotonesque prep school, and in line for the presidency of a Wall Street bank. He has always tried to measure up to the principles he learned at his mother's knee -live on the right side of the park, and never attend matinees. But a series of rude intrusions disrupt his neat, parklike existence. First...
...Michael Parish may be weak and a little foolish, a man fixed by his background and fleeced by his women. But Lawyer-Novelist Auchincloss (The Great World and Timothy Colt, Sybil) pleads his case effectively. He also secures his own expanding niche in American letters, where he suavely dissects the outwardly successful failures and where, in the Fitzgerald tradition, the rich boy never gets off Scott free...