Russell Shaw writes from Maryland.
In “American Priest,” author Father Wilson Miscamble repeatedly shows Father Theodore Hesburgh as a high-minded educator, public servant and priest who did much good. That he also shows the problematic side of a man for whom cultural assimilation sometimes mattered more than
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