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OTB OPEN ON PALM SUNDAY | New York Post
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Apr 13, 2003 - For the first time in history, New York City Off-Track Betting announced yesterday it plans to open today, Palm Sunday, to accept wagers, ...Off Track Betting to push for Palm Sunday opening - The Saratogian
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Jan 23, 2009 - SARATOGA SPRINGS -- Off Track Betting officials say the plan to push for legislation that would allow them to stay open on Palm Sunday.New York OTB faces fine after opening Palm Sunday | Daily Racing ...
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Apr 14, 2003 - New York OTB faces fine after opening Palm Sunday ... Board's opinion that parimutuel betting at OTB parlors on Palm Sunday is illegal.OPEN ON 1ST PALM SUNDAY, OTB RAKES IN $2M - NY Daily News
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Apr 14, 2003 - New York City Off-Track Betting made history yesterday, taking bets on Palm Sunday. Since 1973, when Sunday racing was made legal in New ...OTB seeks to allow Palm Sunday betting - The Daily Gazette
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Feb 7, 2009 - CAPITAL REGION — Off-Track Betting sites in New York state are looking to add another day to their calendar — Palm Sunday. Current state ...
Eugene Kennedy, a psychologist, former priest and public intellectual who, inspired by the ideas of Vatican II, emerged in the 1970s as a powerful voice for reform and modernization of the Roman Catholic Church, died on June 3 in St. Joseph, Mich. He was 86.
The cause was heart and kidney failure, his niece Caroline Joseph said.
Mr. Kennedy, who left the priesthood in 1977, was a social scientist who felt a deep love of the church and a profound dissatisfaction with its hierarchical structure, which he believed put the church out of touch with the modern world and the needs of ordinary Catholics.
He was especially troubled by the culture of the priesthood. As early as 1967, he proposed that seminaries be made coeducational, to take prospective priests out of their monastic isolation and put them in contact with the wider world.
“The seminary of the future must relate itself to flesh-and-blood men, or it provides a framework that only talks about the people of God but never really shares life with them,” he told a meeting of theNational Catholic Educational Association. Although a passionate defender of celibacy — which, he argued, offered the world “a vision of the Christian meaning of love” — he came to believe that it should be a matter of choice, not rule.
“He was curiously traditional and progressive at once,” said Thomas C. Fox, the publisher and former editor of The National Catholic Reporter. “He was trying to preserve the best traditions of the church, especially the sacramental tradition, but he realized that to do this, the church had to enter the modern and postmodern eras.”
In the early 1970s, Father Kennedy — he was a Maryknoll priest at the time — embarked on a landmark study of the priesthood at the behest of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, the official organization of the Catholic hierarchy. Published in 1972 as “The Catholic Priest in the United States: Psychological Investigations,” with Victor J. Heckler as a co-author, it concluded that two-thirds of the 271 priests in the study were emotionally undeveloped and incapable of forming healthy, trusting, nonsexual relationships.
Trouble lay in store, he warned. When his fears were realized in the sexual abuse scandals that rocked the church a generation later, he was an early and vocal critic of the bishops who had covered up the transgressions of parish priests and of the hierarchy that enabled them.
“The priesthood is not dying, but the clerical state is dead,” Mr. Kennedy wrote in a column for The National Catholic Reporter in 2002. “It needs to be buried, preferably with a Viking funeral in Boston Harbor so nobody can miss the spectacle of its passing.”
Eugene Cullen Kennedy was born in Syracuse on Aug. 18, 1928, and grew up in Nassau County on Long Island and in Queens. An uncle, Michael J. Cullen, founded the King Kullen supermarket chain on Long Island. His father, J. Donald Kennedy, worked in the business, and his brother, Bernard, who survives him, helped run the company for years.
Mr. Kennedy attended Maryknoll College in Westchester County, N.Y., where he earned a bachelor’s degree in philosophy in 1950. After receiving a bachelor’s degree in theology from Maryknoll Seminary in 1953, he entered the Maryknoll order in 1955.
He went on to earn a master’s degree in religious education at Maryknoll Seminary and master’s and doctoral degrees in psychology at the Catholic University of America in Washington.
After teaching psychology at Maryknoll Seminary and working as a counselor at Maryknoll College, he joined the psychology department of Loyola University in Chicago in 1969, eventually becoming a full professor before retiring in 1995. He had homes in Benton Harbor, Mich., and Naples, Fla.
Mr. Kennedy applied the insights of modern social science to problems of faith, sexuality and human development in books like “In the Spirit, in the Flesh” (1971), “The Pain of Being Human” (1973), “Believing” (1974) and “The Unhealed Wound: The Church and Human Sexuality” (2001).
In 1977, he left the priesthood to marry Sara C. Charles, a former Maryknoll sister and psychiatrist, who survives him. She was his co-author on an expanded and revised edition, published in 2001, of his primer “On Becoming a Counselor” (1977).
“He was much taken by the transformation of knowledge that came with the space age and the information age,” Mr. Fox of The National Catholic Reporter said. “He did not see it as a threat but as an enormous gift to the imagination, a way of awakening our sense of the divine. The dualities that governed Catholicism for centuries — up and down, heaven and hell — no longer held in the postmodern age, and he celebrated this.”
Mr. Kennedy, who wrote dozens of books and turned out an endless stream of newspaper and magazine articles on a wide variety of subjects, cut a big figure in Chicago, where he moved easily among the city’s political, religious and cultural elite. His close friends included Mayor Richard J. Daley, the novelist Saul Bellow and Cardinal Joseph Bernardin.
“He defied categorization as an academician,” said Arthur J. Lurigio, a psychology professor at Loyola University in Chicago who studied with Mr. Kennedy as a graduate student. “You wondered, ‘Am I talking to a psychologist, a political scientist, or a philosopher?’ He was also an expert on marriage and human sexuality.”
Mr. Kennedy wrote several books on Cardinal Bernardin and Mr. Daley, including the biographies “Bernardin: Life to the Full” (1987) and “Himself!: The Life and Times of Mayor Richard J. Daley” (1978). He also wrote three novels: “Father’s Day” (1981), “Queen Bee” (1982) and “Fixes” (1989). In 1987, PBS broadcast his one-man play, “I Would Be Called John: Pope John XXIII,” with Charles Durning in the title role.
“He stayed relevant until the day he died,” Professor Lurigio said. “He didn’t just join the dialogue, he created it.”
Correction: June 11, 2015
An earlier version of this obituary incorrectly attributed an academic position to Mr. Kennedy. He was a professor in the psychology department of Loyola University in Chicago, not the department chairman.
An earlier version of this obituary incorrectly attributed an academic position to Mr. Kennedy. He was a professor in the psychology department of Loyola University in Chicago, not the department chairman.
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