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So, I’m two months slow to notice, but when I was in the post office looking for some new commemoratives, I noticed there was a set of priest-stamps. I had no clue who he was, but I bought some. The stamp-sheet didn’t really have any biographical information to give me clues, so I had to wander onto Google and Wikipedia.
So, I came away with “President of Notre Dame” and “As of 2013, he also held the world’s record for the individual with most honorary degrees with more than 150” and things like that. I also came away with “I’ve got no problem with female or married priests” (which seems rather clumsy, as they’re two totally different issues-- one is doctrinal and the other is discipline) and how he was responsible for the increasing secularization in Catholic institutions of higher learning.
One article said “By the early 1970s Hesburgh had become the most well known Catholic in the United States.” I would have expected, say, Fulton Sheen to have had that title? But I wasn’t paying attention to this kind of stuff in the early 70’s.
I started wondering how many other influential American Catholics had been commemorated on stamps-- like Solanus Casey, or Nelson Baker, or Edward Flanagan, etc. So then I found this nice (2016) article that broke it down.
Anyhow, it was just something I bumped into and I thought I’d share.
So, I came away with “President of Notre Dame” and “As of 2013, he also held the world’s record for the individual with most honorary degrees with more than 150” and things like that. I also came away with “I’ve got no problem with female or married priests” (which seems rather clumsy, as they’re two totally different issues-- one is doctrinal and the other is discipline) and how he was responsible for the increasing secularization in Catholic institutions of higher learning.
One article said “By the early 1970s Hesburgh had become the most well known Catholic in the United States.” I would have expected, say, Fulton Sheen to have had that title? But I wasn’t paying attention to this kind of stuff in the early 70’s.
I started wondering how many other influential American Catholics had been commemorated on stamps-- like Solanus Casey, or Nelson Baker, or Edward Flanagan, etc. So then I found this nice (2016) article that broke it down.
Anyhow, it was just something I bumped into and I thought I’d share.