Powerful Populist Evangelists
1. Archbishop Fulton Sheen, incomparable evangelist
2. Fr. Patrick Peyton, the family rosary post war
3. Ralph Martin and collaborators in directing Catholic Charismatic Renewal post 1967
4. Mother Angelica, EWTN
5. Thomas Merton (of Seven Story Mountain of 1948 - 1965, not so much later Merton)
6. Frank Sheed and Maisy Ward in Sheed and Ward publishing company post war
7. Bishop Robert Barron today
8. Giuseppe Gennarini in bringing the Neocatechumenate to the USA
Contemporary American Doctors of the Church
1. David L. Schindler and collaborators (son David C., Lopez, Hanby, Healy) in proposing the Nuptial Mysticism of John Paul, Benedict and Balthasar to the American Church.
2. Avery Cardinal Dulles S.J. who stands alone for depth, breath, orthodoxy of teaching.
3. Fr. John Oesterreicher, immigrant and convert who influenced the significant Vatican II teaching on the Jews.
4. John Courtney Murray S.J. who directly influenced the Vatican II document on religious freedom.
5. Fr. Stanley Jaki, immigrant, brilliant scientist-theologian who wrote broadly on those areas.
6. Scott Hahn, brilliant, popular biblical scholar, has lead a "new Oxford Movement" of intellectual evangelicals into the Church.
7. Influential philosophers: Peter Kreft, Alasdair MacIntyr.
8. Catholic Charismatic theologians: Francis Martin, Killian McDonnell, Ralph Martin, Kevin Ranaghan, Mary Healy, George Montague, Ed O'Connor, Steve Clark.
9. Neoconservatives Neuhaus, Novak, Weigel, George for their culture war ferocity and dialogue with Evangelicals. Their exaltation of American, free-market, democratic liberalism however needs balancing with Catholic values of subsidiarity and solidarity with the suffering.
10. Rene Girard, immigrant from France.
Saints and Holy Ones
1. St. Katherine Drexell (1858-1955) only canonized American saint alive in our era.
2. Blessed Fr. Stanley Ruther (1935-81) Missionary and martyr in Guatemala.
3. Blessed Fr. Solanus Casey (1870-1957) Capuchin, healer, humble lover of the poor.
4. Venerable Emil Kapaun (1915-61) Chaplain, military hero in Korean war.
5. Venerable Aloysius Schwartz, extraordinary servant of poor orphans in South Korea.
6. Servant of God Dorothy Day and Peter Maurin, Catholic Worker founders
7. Servant of God Cardinal Terrence Cook
8. Servant of God Fr. Vincent Capodanno MM, military chaplain hero in Vietnam War.
9. Servant of God Michele Dupong, joyous and holy 29 year old died serenely of cancer 2015.
10. Delores (Mama) Gili, Italian immigrant wife, mother who assisted the needy and propagated devotion to the Holy Face in Orange NJ
We stand on the shoulders of giants!
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