America's Bishop: The Life and Times of Fulton J. Sheen
Autor Thomas C. Reevesen Limba Engleză Paperback – 31 oct 2002
Among Fulton J. Sheen's thousands of converts were celebrities such as Clare Booth Luce and Henry Ford II, and former communists Louis Budenz and Elizabeth Bentley. Reeves discusses these conversions and Sheen's close friendship with J. Edgar Hoover, and details for the first time the struggle between Sheen and his chief rival, Francis Cardinal Spellman, a battle of ecclesiastical titans that led all the way to the Pope and to Sheen's final humiliation and exile.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781893554610
ISBN-10: 1893554619
Pagini: 488
Dimensiuni: 152 x 232 x 35 mm
Greutate: 0.74 kg
Ediția:NONE
Editura: ENCOUNTER BOOKS
ISBN-10: 1893554619
Pagini: 488
Dimensiuni: 152 x 232 x 35 mm
Greutate: 0.74 kg
Ediția:NONE
Editura: ENCOUNTER BOOKS
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Descriere
The result of interviews with dozens of Sheen's friends, family members and church colleagues and the unearthing of important new material at the Sheen Archives in New York, this is the first in-depth portrait of the flamboyant churchman and intellectual, and a social history of Catholicism in America during the 20th century.