A person’s heroes often point to their values. In Pope Francis’ case, the people he singled out for their heroic virtues reveal a great deal about his papal priorities.
Kathleen Sprows Cummings
Kathleen Sprows Cummings is a professor of American studies and history at Notre Dame and author, most recently, of A Saint of Our Own: How the Quest for a Holy Hero Helped Catholics Become American.
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A Promising Path: Building ‘a profound theology of womanhood’ for the 21st century
Kathleen Sprows Cummings on building ‘a profound theology of womanhood’ for the 21st century
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Tumult and Transformation
According to Mark Massa, the American Catholic revolution is still unfolding.
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Ways to Witness
Last month students in my class on women and Catholicism spent an evening at a Catholic Worker House in South Bend Ind We prepared a meal shared it with the guests and listened to an after-dinner talk by Margaret Pfeil a staff member at the house and my colleague at Notre Dame Pfeil spoke abou
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Two-Part Harmony
American Catholics and Civic Engagement is the first of two volumes published by American Catholics in the Public Square a three-year project funded by the Pew Charitable Trusts Peter Steinfels rsquo introduction sketches the historical background behind the ongoing struggle of Roman Catholics to