Parish Priest Father Michael McGivney and American Catholicism
by Douglas Brinkley & Julie M. Fenster

ISBN 978-0-06-077685-5 241 pages, b&w illustrations Price: CDN$16.95 Qty:

Book Description Is now the time for an American parish priest to be declared a Catholic saint? Born and raised in a Connecticut factory town, the son of Irish immmigrants, Father Michael McGivney's (1852-1890) legacy of hope is still celebrated around the world. At a time when discrimination against American Catholics, homelessness, and starvation were widespread, Faather McGivney founded the Knights of Columbus, an organization that has helped save countless families from the indignity of destitution. In this moving and inspirational work, Douglas Brinkley, the New York Times bestselling author of The Great Deluge and The Boys of Pointe du Hoc, and award-winning author Julie M. Fenster re-create the all-too-brief life of perhaps the most beloved parish priest in U.S. hisstory and chronicle the process of canonization that may well make this fiercely dynamic yet tenderhearted man the first American-born priest to be declared a saint by the Vatican. "A wonderfully told tale of a great friend of the voiceless and of the dramatic rise of Irish Catholicism in the swelling slums of our industrial cities. It reaches out over a century of time to speak to the public and spiritual deficiencies of our own age."