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Providence College Professor of English Charles F. Duffy was planning to teach some Irish American fiction in one of his Modern Irish Literature classes.
“Figuring Edwin O’Connor would loom large…I reread
The Last Hurrah,” Duffy writes, “and then looked around for a biography of the author. To my surprise, no such book existed.”
Duffy has changed that with his exemplary
A Family of His Own: A Life of Edwin O’Connor.
Beginning with O’Connor’s middleclass youth in a Rhode Island split between Irish and French Canadian Catholics, Duffy follows O’Connor to Notre Dame and the Coast Guard during World War II. Then there are years in radio (with little writing success) and Boston, which O’Connor would use as the (unnamed) setting for
Echoes is the opinion section of TheBostonPilot.com. The Boston Pilot is a daily news Catholic newspaper based in Boston, Massachusetts, covering news and opinion about the Catholic Church and Catholic life. We carry daily news from Boston, New England, US, the Vatican, Europe, Africa, Asia, and Central and Latin America. The Boston Pilot is part of the Pilot Media Group, America s oldest Catholic newspaper and the official newspaper of the Archdiocese of Boston.
<p><img width="350" height="219" src="/media/17259947/abby-johnson-at-gop-convention 350x219.jpg" alt="Abby Johnson" class="ImageFloatRight"/>There were a few roadblocks along the way, but an event featuring pro-life activist Abby Johnson did occur this week at the Catholic University of America.</p>
In 2019, Caitlin Flanagan wrote an essay for The Atlantic titled, ‘The Dishonesty of the Abortion Debate.’ This week, the hosts of Jesuitical, talk to Caitlin about what a more honest (and charitable) conversation might look like.
When Larry Kulick was a little boy at St. Martha Parish in Leechburg, he told his pastor that he wanted to be an altar server. The priest told him that