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Wolfgang Rösch – Vicar general of Limburg. Jean-Baptiste de La Salle – A founder of the Institute of the Brothers of the Christian Schools. Abraham a Sancta Clara – Catholic preacher in Austria. Mike Schmitz – American priest. John Tolkien – son of J.R.R. Tolkien. Francis Xavier – Jesuit missionary to Japan.
Charles Edward Coughlin (/ ˈkɒɡlɪn / KOG-lin; October 25, 1891 – October 27, 1979), commonly known as Father Coughlin, was a Canadian-American Catholic priest based in the United States near Detroit. He was the founding priest of the National Shrine of the Little Flower. Dubbed " The Radio Priest " and considered a leading demagogue, [1 ...
Fr. Daniel Berrigan, [64][65] Activist who was part of the Catonsville Nine and the Plowshares Movement. Fr. Virgil Blum, [66] Founded the Catholic League. Fr. George Coyne, [67] Former director of the Vatican Observatory. Fr. Brian E. Daley, [68] Ratzinger Prize winning theologian.
E. Eadberht III Præn – King of Kent from 796 to 798 and former diocesan priest. Johann Esch – Belgian former Augustinian friar who was martyred for adopting Lutheran beliefs. Louis Évely – Belgian Christian spiritual writer; left the diocesan priesthood after conflicts with his superiors over his writings.
This is a list of Catholic clergy [a] throughout history who have made contributions to science. These churchmen-scientists include Nicolaus Copernicus, Gregor Mendel, Georges Lemaître, Albertus Magnus, Roger Bacon, Pierre Gassendi, Roger Joseph Boscovich, Marin Mersenne, Bernard Bolzano, Francesco Maria Grimaldi, Nicole Oresme, Jean Buridan ...
Fulton J. Sheen. Fulton John Sheen (born Peter John Sheen, May 8, 1895 – December 9, 1979) was an American bishop of the Catholic Church known for his preaching and especially his work on television and radio. Ordained a priest of the Diocese of Peoria in Illinois, in 1919, [1] Sheen quickly became a renowned theologian, earning the Cardinal ...
John Melchior Bosco, SDB (Italian: Giovanni Melchiorre Bosco; Piedmontese: Gioann Melchior Bòsch; 16 August 1815 [4] – 31 January 1888), [5] popularly known as Don Bosco (IPA: [ˈdɔm ˈbɔsko, bo-]), [6] was an Italian Catholic priest, educator and writer of the 19th century. While working in Turin, where the population suffered many of the ...
Albert Berzeviczy (1853–1936) George Noble Plunkett (1851–1948) Cardinal Pietro Gasparri. 5 May 1852. Ussita, Macerata, Italy. 18 November 1934. Rome, Italy. 1919, 1920. "for having written the papal peace plan and encouraged people to strive for peace through the papal guidelines for peace and understanding."