In the decades following World War II, an impressive collection of American Catholic intellectuals joined together to ponder what they believed was an urgent question: “What is an intellectual apostle?” These prominent scientists, linguists, historians, philosophers, and literary scholars—some of them clerics, but most laypeople—taught at Georgetown, Fordham, Notre Dame (...)
April 06, 2012
Books
Thinking Apostles
A Catholic Brain TrustThe History of the Catholic Commission on Intellectual and Cultural Affairs, 1945–1965Patrick J. HayesUniversity of Notre Dame Press, $75, 424 pp.
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