About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 61. Chapters: Abraham Klausner, Albert Braun, Allen Allensworth, Anthony Rey, Arthur Moulton, Barry O'Toole, Bob Bennett (politician), Charles J. Watters, Charles Liteky, Chief of Chaplains of the United States Army, Clare Purcell, Clark V. Poling, Daniel Francis Desmond, David Max Eichhorn, Deputy Chief of Chaplains of the United States Army, E. C. Walker, Eben Samuel Johnson, Edgar Amos Love, Edward Francis Ryan, Edward Gonzalez Carroll, Edward Payson Roe, Edwin Ferdinand Lee, Edwin Frederick O'Brien, Emil Kapaun, Ernest Lynn Waldorf, F. Richard Spencer, Francis P. Duffy, Fred Thomson, Gary G. Cohen, Gunther Plaut, Herschel Schacter, Isaac Landman, James Yee, Jeff Struecker, John B. DeValles, John Cross, Jr., John F. Albert, John G. Burkhalter, John Joseph Mitty, John McElroy (Jesuit), John W. Bricker, Joseph A. Burke, Joseph Clemens, Joseph Francis Maguire, Keith Bernard Whitmore, Louis Werfel, Mariano Simon Garriga, Matthew Francis Brady, Mordecai Waxman, Orville Nave, Ovid R. Sellers, Paul John Hallinan, Robert Francis Joyce, Robert McGrady Blackburn, Robert Shaw Sturgis Whitman, Samuel M. Stahl, Solomon Freehof, Stanislaus Joseph Brzana, Theophilus Gould Steward, Thomas Ewing Sherman, Tim Vakoc, Vincent Joseph Hines, Wilbur Hogg, William Donald Borders, William Patrick O'Connor, Xiong Yan (dissident). Excerpt: Edwin Frederick O'Brien (born April 8, 1939) is an American Cardinal. He is the current Grand Master of the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem since his appointment by Pope Benedict XVI on March 15, 2012, having previously served as Pro-Grand Master since his original appointment on August 29, 2011. He had previously held positions as 15th Archbishop of Baltimore from 2007 to 2011, and as 7th Archbishop for the Military Services from 1997 to 2007. Edwin O'Brien was born in the Bronx, New York, to Edwin Frederick, Sr. and Mary Winifred O'Brien. One of three children, he has two late brothers, Ken and Tom. He graduated from Our Lady of Solace School in 1953, and attended St. Mary's High School in Katonah from 1953 to 1957. He then entered St. Joseph's Seminary in Yonkers in 1959, from where he obtained his Bachelor of Arts (1961), Master of Divinity (1964), and Master of Arts (1965) degrees. O'Brien was ordained to the priesthood by Cardinal Francis Spellman on May 29, 1965. He then served as a civilian chaplain at the United States Military Academy at West Point until 1970, whence he became an army chaplain with the rank of Captain. He also took flight training that required him to parachute out of airplanes. O'Brien was a chaplain at Fort Bragg in North Carolina with the 82nd Division (1970 71), and in Vietnam with the 173rd Airborne Brigade and 1st Cavalry Brigade (1971 72). While in Vietnam, he was based in a jungle and flew with a Protestant minister by helicopter to minister to soldiers. From 1972 to 1973, he was a post chaplain at Fort Gordon in Georgia. O'Brien was then sent by Cardinal Terence Cooke to study at the Pontifical North American College in Rome in 1973, and earned a Doctorate in Sacred Theology from the Angelicum University in 1976; his dissertation was titled: "The Origin and Development of Moral Principles in the Theology of Paul Ramsey." Upon his return to the United States, he served as both the vice-chancellor of the Archdioc
