The Archbishop wore combat boots
Subtitle: memoir of an extraordinary life
By: Philip Hannan, with Nancy Collins and Peter Finney, Jr
Contributors: Collins, Nancy; Finney, Peter
Publisher: Our Sunday Visitor Pub. Division
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Huntington, Ind
Language: eng
Number of pages: 457
ISBN-13: 9781592766970
Subjects: Biography; Clergy; Catholic Church
Notes: At head of title: From combat, to Camelot, to Katrina.
Table of contents: title: The funeral of President John Fitzgerald Kennedy; title: In the beginning; title: My seminary days; title: Four years in Rome; title: My first parish assignment; title: Into the army; title: England and combat; title: Back in Washington, D.C.; title: Episcopacy; title: The Kennedy years; title: The Second Vatican Council; title: Appointment to New Orleans; title: Race relations and politics in New Orleans; title: The Cajuns' "Joie de Vivre"; title: The New Orleans Saints; title: Television, politics and abortion; title: Pope John Paul II's historic visit to New Orleans; title: Changes in the Province of New Orleans; title: Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath; title: Stroke and recovery; title: Pope John Paul the Great; title: A few final thoughts.