Remembering Fr. Bradley

In the 1980s, during an evening meal at our home, after the eight children had gone to bed, Father Bradley festively and inimitably narrated with tears of mirth how three Jesuit priests of quite different character once found a house for rent and then attempted to live together in that home while they were all teaching at a Catholic university in Staten Island, St. John’s University. The three priests were Father John A. Hardon, Father Vincent P. (“Pete”) Miceli, and Father Robert I. Bradley himself.

Feeling apparently quite at ease, Father Bradley displayed some entirely unsuspected mimetic gifts and proceeded to act out how all three Jesuit priests together first entered, and with circumspection, the house they were considering to rent. Father Hardon immediately wanted to know where they were going to place the Blessed Sacrament; Father Bradley wanted to be sure that there was enough room on the provided book shelves for his military history volumes; and Father Miceli was especially concerned about the space and convenient conformation of the kitchen, so that he might regularly make for them his good pasta “al dente,” which, according to his cherished traditions, required some tossing aloft of the potentially desirable pasta.

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