Word: priestly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...first page of his Antimemoirs, Andre Malraux tells how in a clear night he met a Catholic priest with whom he had fled months before from the German invasion of France and who at the time was busy handing out false certificates of baptism to persecuted Jews. Malraux asked him if confession had taught him anything and the priest replied that only very little, just that people are much unhappier that one thinks, and that, in the end, what happens is "qu'il n'y a pas de grandes personnes" (that there are no great persons, or, as one translator...
...From Priest to Dean...
Illingworth joined admissions in 1981 having already had one career as a parish priest in Maine...
Austin was ordained as an Episcopal priest in 1971 and received her doctorate in theology from Harvard in 1981. She has since been the director of the Erikson Center at Cambridge Hospital and has taught in the Divinity School, the Medical School and the undergraduate concentration in religion within the Faculty of Arts and Sciences...
Hicks writes, "And speaking of not making sense: an obese beggar? Am I missing something here? It is a combination as foreign as a keg-standing priest or a thought-provoking Core section." He appears terribly eager to display his ignorance regarding the prevalence of obesity among the poor...