Monsignor CharlesMcGlinn, a 1959 graduate of Immaculata and highly respected priest in the Archdiocese of Kansas City in Kansas will be one of those honored at the school’s annual event May 16 at the University of Saint Mary with a Mass, reception, dinner and program.
Monsignor McGlinn,“Charley” to his family and friends, graduated from Immaculata in 1959 after serving as president of its student council and being named to the All-Area football team in 1958.
The path he then chose led him to the unique life of a Catholic priest in the Archdiocese of Kansas City in Kansas, his 1967 ordination coming at a time of great change and upheaval in the church as well as in the country.
Born the second oldest of six sons to John and Margaret McGlinn, he grew up in Leavenworth, attending Immaculate Conception Grade School, now Xavier. He
maintained his strong ties to Immaculata, following the football exploits of his brothers and nephews at IMAC.
Monsignor McGlinn recalled that as a newly assigned priest in Kansas City, Kansas, he became involved in the Civil Rights movement, especially after the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. in 1968.
It was during this time, he said, he learned the meaning of poverty and racism, noting he marched in the Memphis garbage workers’ strike amid tanks armored personnel carriers and machine gun nests along the city’s streets.
Locally, he had worked to start a hot lunch program at the Catholic school
associated with his assigned parish in a very poor area of KCK.
Monsignor McGlinn balances his religious life with many outside interests. He and his brother, Patrick, are the official vintners in an informal family winemaking venture. The Carlos and Patricio Vineyard was established in 1970 when the two brothers first converted their fondness of family, faith and love into an Irish wine.
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