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Paul Hanly Furfey

CATHOLIC PRACTICE IN NORTH AMERICA

SERIES CO-EDITORS:

Angela Alaimo ODonnell, Associate Director of the Francis and Ann Curran Center for American Catholic Studies, Fordham University

John C. Seitz, Assistant Professor, Theology Department, Fordham University

This series aims to contribute to the growing field of Catholic studies through the publication of books devoted to the historical and cultural study of Catholic practice in North America, from the colonial period to the present. As the term practice suggests, the series springs from a pressing need in the study of American Catholicism for empirical investigations and creative explorations and analyses of the contours of Catholic experience. In seeking to provide more comprehensive maps of Catholic practice, this series is committed to publishing works from diverse American locales, including urban, suburban, and rural settings; ethnic, post-ethnic, and transnational contexts; private and public sites; and seats of power as well as the margins.

SERIES ADVISORY BOARD:

Emma Anderson, Ottawa University

Paul Contino, Pepperdine University

Kathleen Sprows Cummings, University of Notre Dame

James T. Fisher, Fordham University

Paul Mariani, Boston College

Thomas A. Tweed, University of Texas at Austin

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Rademacher, Nicholas K., author.

Title: Paul Hanly Furfey : priest, scientist, social reformer / Nicholas K. Rademacher.

Description: First edition. | New York, NY : Fordham University Press, 2017. | Series: Catholic practice in North America | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2017003968 | ISBN 9780823276769 (cloth : alk. paper) | ISBN 9780823276776 (pbk. : alk. paper)

Subjects: LCSH: Furfey, Paul Hanly, 18961992. | CatholicsUnited StatesBiography. | Catholic ChurchUnited StatesHistory20th century.

Classification: LCC BX4705.F9457 R33 2017 | DDC 282.092dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017003968

Printed in the United States of America

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Contents

AAB	Archives of the Archdiocese of Baltimore, Baltimore, Md.
Michael J. Curley Papers
ACUA	The Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C.
Paul Hanly Furfey Papers
Mary Elizabeth Walsh Papers
Catholic Boys Brigade Collection
National Catholic Welfare Conference/Office of the General Secretary/Executive Department Records
National Conference of Catholic Charities, Catholic Charities, USA
C. Joseph Nuesse Papers
AMSSST	Archives of the Missionary Servants of the Most Holy Trinity, Silver Spring, Md.
BCA	Boston College University Archives, Chestnut Hill, Mass.
CHMRC	Chicago History Museum Research Center, Chicago, Ill.
Friendship House Records
MHA	Madonna House Archives, Combermere, Ontario, Canada
MUA	Marquette University Archives, Milwaukee, Wis.
Dorothy DayCatholic Worker Collection
SAA	Saint Anselms Abbey Archives, Washington, D.C.
Thomas Verner Moore Papers

Paul Hanly Furfey

A small band of pilgrims made their way from church, to university, to community house. They were undaunted by the freezing temperature and the imposing snow banks, remnants from the historic snowstorm that had struck the nations capital just two weeks earlier. On this bright Saturday morning, February 22, 1936, they prayed together, studied together, and celebrated together as they officially opened Il Poverello House. They named the house after their role model, the little poor man, St. Francis of Assisi. They dedicated the house and the community to fostering racial justice, economic justice, and peace. They committed themselves to a program that mirrored their celebration: the integration of prayer, social scientific research, and direct action for social justice.

It was a tipping point in Paul Hanly Furfeys implementation of a social justice vision for the department of sociology at the Catholic University of America. Through this project, he and his colleagues pursued a social justice program that was liberal in its application of the social sciences; radical, by following the Gospel as closely as possible; and revolutionary, in that they sought fundamental social change through their neighborhood collaborations and university work. They pursued this path for more than three decades. They altered it according to circumstances, but the underlying vision remained the same. As Furfey announced that first day, We hope to succeed as St. Francis did not by our own wisdom but by humble faith.

Some thirty-five years later, in 1972, Paul Hanly Furfey (18961992) celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of his ordination to the Roman Catholic priesthood. He celebrated his eightieth birthday four years later, just a few days shy of the bicentennial of the United States of America. Even before these major milestones, Furfeys friends and colleagues had been encouraging him to write an autobiography to mark his significant contribution to the longstanding tradition of Catholic social thought and practice in the United States. He took seriously their requests but doubted whether there would be sufficient interest to warrant such a work, and he wondered whether there had been enough unity in his scholarship to give shape to an autobiography.

While Furfey never completed a book-length autobiography, he managed to publish material in which he reflected upon his personal and professional development across fifty-plus years of scholarship. For example, he incorporated autobiographical material in a 1972 article that appeared in American Ecclesiastical Review as well as in his final three books, The Respectable Murderers , The Morality Gap , and Love and the Urban Ghetto . In these works, Furfey established a framework for understanding his legacy as a priest, scientist, and social reformer by identifying three consecutive stages through which his thought moved: liberal, radical, and revolutionary.

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