Voices
Amy Koehlinger is an associate professor in the School of History, Philosophy and Religion at Oregon State University. She is the author of The New Nuns: Racial Justice and Religious Reform in the 1960s.
FaithShort Take
As late as the 1970s, boxing saturated U.S. Catholic culture. It reinforced Catholic ideas about the redemptive value of physical suffering; it also offered a powerful form of assimilation to male Catholic immigrants.