Catholicism: A Global History from the French Revolution to Pope Francis

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Notes

1 This is not to say, of course, that McGreevy does not mention saints, but he pays special attention to those who reflect social and cultural changes within the Church, such as St. Josephine Bakhita or the missionary St. Daniel Comboni. In this sense, McGreevy has chosen to sympathetically highlight figures in Church life – some well-known, others less so – who stood out more for their activism, especially liberal, such as the French constitutionalist bishop Henri Grégoire; the Mexican revolutionary priest Servando Teresa de Mier; Daniel O’Connell, the Irish independence hero; some prominent French liberal Catholics such as Charles de Montalembert or the former priest Félicité de La Mennais; the Chinese statesman and former priest Ma Xiaobang; the French philosopher and reformer Jacques Maritain; the German Jesuit and social philosopher Gustav Gundlach; Gustavo Gutiérrez, initiator of liberation theology and its ideologist, Bishop Hélder Câmara; Barbara Ward, British pioneer in the defense of the environment; the Senegalese politician and poet Léopold Sédar Senghor; or the married couple, John and Dominique de Menil, outstanding figures in North American cultural life.