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May 1968

A Priest's Story

A Roman Catholic priest tells how he slid downhill into the alcoholic ward of a state hospital--where he found AA

I AM a priest and I am an alcoholic. Perhaps the wedding of these two facts may serve to bring home the truth that alcoholism is no respecter of persons. It cuts clean across every boundary--educational, economic, ethnical, ethical. This disease simply has no regard for creed, code, cult, or color, because it is not a professional or vocational illness, but a disease that hits and hurts us on a much more basic level. It hits us on the level of our humanity; it hurts us as men and women.

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