By Charles R. Gallagher
ISBN-10: 0300121342
ISBN-13: 9780300121346
ISBN-10: 0300148216
ISBN-13: 9780300148213
Dependent upon his 1998 doctoral dissertation, Charles Gallagher has given us a very good and engaging account of the lifetime of Joseph Hurley, Bishop of St. Augustine, who used to be additionally a famous diplomat and activist within the struggle opposed to either fascism and communism. Hurley used to be a guy who uniquely straddled the limits of church and country as he fought to guard his state, his church, and the realm from the violent extremism of correct and left, notwithstanding he used to be a real Conservative to the tip of his extraordinary profession.
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Hurley to be his traveling companion. The elder priest and his younger assistant would sail to Honolulu, Yokohama, Shanghai, Manila, and Singapore on the way to India, where they would 28 a p r iest i n th e f a m i l y meet with Mooney. Both priests enjoyed mingling with the other passengers, shopping, and visiting tourist sights. By mid-March the two priests were touring India. ” During the next week the three Cleveland priests enjoyed themselves and got reacquainted in the cool climate of the Bangalore mission.
In 1933 he was accredited neither to the foreign minister nor to the emperor. Yet his role acquired a much wider scope than the familiar “six to eight letters a day” routine. 22 If Mooney’s appointment to Rochester caught everyone off guard, Hurley’s bump up to “chargé of mission” was equally surprising. In his new capacity, he was responsible for carrying out all the official functions of the mission, including negotiations, reporting, and protocol. Obviously, Hurley had not expected to be put into a position of authority so rapidly.
A lump in the throat as they played the ‘Star Spangled Banner’—stood a little more erect than usual,” he penned in his travel diary. ” Cleveland’s own Joseph P. 59 c h a p te r t w o Diplomatic Observer i nd i a and ja pa n, 1927–193 4 t h e s eco n d t im e a r ou n d, Hurley began to recognize the significance of Mooney’s invitation to Bangalore. Accepting Mooney’s offer meant forgoing the traditional path to a prestigious Cleveland pastorate. Even so, he probably realized that the long-standing seniority system meant that many of the pastorates were already “sewn up” by senior clerics and so-called irremovable rectors.
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