Religion: Gannon Speaks Out

"Only a year ago, there were many loyal Americans—and I was one of them —who felt that this was not our war. We used to say that if the Soviets were wiped off the map it would be good riddance, and that the feeble, guilty old British Empire was not worth one American life. . . . Humiliating as it is, I am ready to confess that we were wrong and President Roosevelt was right. It was our war from the first."

With these vigorous words the president of America's biggest Roman Catholic university last...

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