Father Arnold Damen, Chicago’s Jesuit ApostleDecember 10, 2008 |
Enjoying a varied reputation as pioneering parish priest, educational trail-blazer, inspiring mission preacher, formidable religious controversialist, and, oh yes, a ghost that haunts historical buildings on Chicago’s Near West Side, Father Arnold Damen, S.J., is an important figure in American Catholic history. The Society of Jesus, to which the Dutch-born priest belonged, can boast an almost four-hundred-year history on our continent, a history consistent with the Jesuits’ Marine-like reputation as the first ones at the scene of a battle. They were builders, founders, religious frontiersmen - or, if you will, special forces sent in to take out the demonic first line of resistance in enemy territory.
Link (here) to the full and compelling post
Link (here) to the full and compelling post
No comments:
Post a Comment