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York School of Social Work.

This is of course years later and I'm jumping ahead. This is one of my cause and effect lines of association. The upheaval that Mitchel caused, making them look into their social work and charitable institutions, encouraged Keenan to go to the School of Social Work, graduate and learn all he could. He held some small office in the Catholic Charities - secretary or something for a year or two. Then Archbishop Hayes took him as his private secretary. As private secretary of the Archbishop he really developed control over all of this multitude of institutions which were owned and run by, not the archbishop, but by the orders.

It's much harder to get the orders to do things than people realize, much harder than John Kingsbury ever thought. There are the Sisters of Charity. Did you ever try to make the Sisters of Charity do anything they didn't want to do? The Holy Father can advise them with regard to their faith and morals, but sure, they know how to run an institution for children. It take a great deal of persuasion and a great deal of appeal to reason and religious loyalty to make them even listen to the Archbishop's new-fangled ideas, even when he got them from Father Keenan.

Father Keenan and the Archbishop did a wonderful job in the institutions, really. They did it by penetration