Rewriting the History of Catholic Schools in America
…ve the faith of future Catholics. Dolan acknowledges in his article that a number of other Catholic bishops shared this conviction, but he focuses on Hughes—“famously known as ‘Dagger John’ for his fearsome wit and readiness to fight for Catholic rights”—because of the striking similarity between Hughes’ time and our own. But Dolan’s article was only a warm-up. In October, Hughes starred in the only extended segment on Catholics in the PBS docudra…
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