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Eddie Doherty
Edward J. “Eddie” Doherty (October 30, 1890 - May 4, 1975) was an American newspaper reporter, author and Oscar-nominated screenwriter. He was the co-founder of the Madonna House Apostolate, and la...view moreEdward J. “Eddie” Doherty (October 30, 1890 - May 4, 1975) was an American newspaper reporter, author and Oscar-nominated screenwriter. He was the co-founder of the Madonna House Apostolate, and later ordained a priest in the Melkite Greek Catholic Church.
Born in Chicago in 1890 to Police Lieutenant Edward Doherty and Ellen Rodgers, he was the eldest of ten children in an Irish Catholic family. At the age of 13 he entered a Servite monastery in Wisconsin. After two years he left the seminary, returned to Chicago, and went to work at the City Press. Starting as a newspaper copy boy, Doherty worked at various other Chicago newspapers, including the Examiner, the Record-Herald, the Tribune, the Herald, and the American, where he began writing columns.
At the Tribune, he helped establish the Joseph Medill School of Journalism. In 1944, Doherty’s screenplay for the World War II film The Sullivans was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Story. He and his third wife, Baroness Catherine de Hueck, moved to Combermere, Ontario, Canada and started a new apostolate called Madonna House in 1947. Here they founded their own newspaper, Restoration, which has remained in continuous circulation.
In 1969, Doherty obtained permission to transfer from the Latin Church to the Byzantine Rite Melkite Greek Catholic Church (which allows married men to become priests), and on August 15, 1969, Doherty was ordained a Catholic priest at the age of seventy-eight by Archbishop Joseph Raya.
Doherty died in Combermere in 1975 at the age of 84.view less