As Cummings notes, our future saints, some of whom have already passed beyond the veil, will disclose to us as much about ourselves and our church as they will about their own heroic virtue.
Jack Downey
Jack Downey is the John Henry Newman Chair of Catholic Studies at the University of Rochester. He is the author of The Bread of the Strong: Lacouturisme and the Folly of the Cross, 1910-1985 (Fordham University Press).
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Review: Paul Hanly Furfey, the revolutionary priest
A much-needed biography of Paul Hanly Furfey (1896-1992): priest, sociologist and urban revolutionary theorist.
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Hard truths about white supremacy in America
How intertwined are American Christian beliefs in a “Chosen People” and American notions of racial superiority?