Criteria for greatness: range and depth of influence, quality of thought (clear, profound, creative, loyal to the Church), and holiness of life. Includes Foreign-born who worked here as well as Canadians and Mexicans in an expansive, non-MAGA understanding of America!
10. Dorothy Day
9. Henri Nouwen
8. David L. Schindler
7. Thomas Merton (of the 1950s)
6. Giuseppe Gennarini
5. Bishop Robert Barron
4. Ralph Martin
3. Mother Angelica
2. Father Patrick Peyton
1. Bishop Fulton Sheen
Honorable Mention:
Avery Dulles S.J,, Monsignor Albacete, Fr. Benedict Groeschel, Pope Leo XIV, Monsignor Ostereicher, Fr. John Courtney Murray S.J, Neuhaus-Novak-Weigel, Allisdair McIntyre, Peter Kreeft, (Canadians and Foreigners who worked in the USA): Bernard Lonergan, Etienne Gilson, Fr. Stanley Jaki, Rene Girard, Jacques Maritain, Marshall McLuhan, Cardinals Bernadine, O'Connor, George.
Rogue's Gallery: Those Who Scandalized and Misguided Us: Macial Maciel (Mexican), Ted McCarrick, Ted Hesburg, Richard Rohr, James Martin S.J., Eugene Kennedy, the Kennedy/Cuomo/Biden/Cuomo Gang.
This is our Communion of Saints.
We stand on the shoulders of giants.
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