Saul E. Bronder: Social Justice and Church Authority

<body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000" link="#0000FF" vlink="#CC0000" alink="#CC0000"><center><hr width="350" size="1" align="center" noshade>A rare study of social action on the local level from the Depression to the present<hr width="350" size="1" align="center" noshade><p><a href="https://cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu/Cart/ChicagoBook.aspx?ISBN=9780877222392&&PRESS=temple" target="_top">Buy this book!</a> | <a href="https://cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu/Cart/Cart.aspx?PRESS=temple" target="_top">View Cart</a> | <a href="https://cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu/Cart/Cart.aspx?PRESS=temple" target="_top">Check Out</a></p><p><img src="232_reg.gif" height=200 border=1 vspace=4></p></center><h1>Social Justice and Church Authority</h1> <H2>The Public Life of Archbishop Robert E. Lucey</H2> <h3>Saul E. Bronder</h3> <P>cloth 0-87722-239-8 $29.95, Jan 82, <FONT COLOR=#990033>Out of Print</FONT> <BR> 244 pp </P><BLOCKQUOTE><I>"Well researched and gracefully written...the book is a splendid example of biography and church history. Lucey has received fair treatment and historians of twentieth-century America are indebted to the author."</I> <br>&#151<b><I>Catholic Historical Review</I></b><I></I></BLOCKQUOTE> <p>In Los Angeles, Amarillo, and especially San Antonio, where he was installed as Archbishop, Robert Lucey was an advocate of social justice for blacks, Mexican-Americans, and the poor, a passionate critic of racism and segregation, and a powerful supporter of the right of labor to organize. He became a national figure during the New Deal when he regularly lambasted the Republicans and "economic immorality" on his radio show, Saint Anthony's Hour. Lucey was dear to FDR for his counterattacks on Father Coughlin, the notorious Roosevelt-baiter. <p>All his life Lucey believed in ecclesiastical authority. He submitted to it; he wielded it without qualms. In a final irony to his career, Archbishop Lucey defended the Vietnam war and his friend LBJ, exercising all his authority against the dissenting priests he himself had trained to pursue social justice. <p>Although Lucey's dictatorial style as an administrator sometimes caused bitterness and revolt, it sometimes worked wonders. In San Antonio in one year the Catholic charities under his direction dispensed twenty times the $8,000 in aid that the poor received from the municipal government. <p>This is a rare study of social action on the local level from the Depression to the present. Based on many primary sources, it also reveals much about the inner workings of the Catholic Church, which assumes responsibility not only for the salvation of its people but for their health, education, and welfare as well. <BR> <H2>About the Author(s)</H2> <P><b>Saul E. Bronder</b> teaches history at the University of Maryland.</P> <BR><H2>Subject Categories</H2> <p><A HREF="/tempress/religion.html" TARGET="_top">Religion</a> </p> <p align="center"><a href="https://cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu/Cart/ChicagoBook.aspx?ISBN=9780877222392&&PRESS=temple" target="_top">Buy this book!</a> | <a href="https://cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu/Cart/Cart.aspx?PRESS=temple" target="_top">View Cart</a> | <a href="https://cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu/Cart/Cart.aspx?PRESS=temple" target="_top">Check Out</a></p><p><font face="Arial" size="1"><a href="copyright.html" onMouseOver="window.status='Web Copyright Policy';return true;" onMouseOut="window.status=''" title="Web Copyright Policy">©</a> 2015 <a href="http://www.temple.edu" target="new" onMouseOver="window.status='Link to Temple University home page';return true;" onMouseOut="window.status=''" title="Link to Temple University home page">Temple University</a>. All Rights Reserved. http://www.temple.edu/tempress/titles/232_reg.html</font></p>