Edward J. "Eddie" Doherty (October 30, 1890–May 4, 1975) was a famed American newspaper reporter, best-selling author, Oscar-nominated screenwriter, co-founder of the Madonna House Apostolate, and later ordained a priest in the Melkite Greek Catholic Church.
Eddie was born into a large Irish Catholic family in Chicago, the son of a Chicago police officer.
As a child he dreamed of becoming a priest, and at the age of 13 he entered a Servite monast...
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Edward J. "Eddie" Doherty (October 30, 1890–May 4, 1975) was a famed American newspaper reporter, best-selling author, Oscar-nominated screenwriter, co-founder of the Madonna House Apostolate, and later ordained a priest in the Melkite Greek Catholic Church.
Eddie was born into a large Irish Catholic family in Chicago, the son of a Chicago police officer.
As a child he dreamed of becoming a priest, and at the age of 13 he entered a Servite monastery in Wisconsin. Within two years, however, he left to return to Chicago and reunited with his childhood sweetheart, Marie Ryan.
Starting as a newspaper copy boy and later becoming a police beat reporter, Eddie covered stories in the days of Al Capone and other gangsters, slowly making a name for himself.
Eddie wed Marie Ryan on December 15, 1914, and she bore him a son, Eddie Jr., on July 11, 1917. Eighteen months later, however, disaster struck as Marie died in the flu epidemic of 1918. Eddie was devastated, and turned his back on the...
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