Parish Priest
Brinkley, Douglas / Fenster, Julie M. Father McGivney's vision remains as relevant as ever in the changed circumstances of today's church and society."—Pope John Paul IIIs now the time for an American parish priest to be declared a Catholic saint?In Father Michael McGivney (1852-1890), born and raised in a Connecticut factory town, the modern era's ideal of the priesthood hit its zenith. The son of Irish immigrants, he was a man to whom "family values" represented more than mere r...