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John Leo: Principle and Prescience

John Leo: Principle and Prescience Acad. Quest. (2020) 33:616–621 DOI 10.1007/s12129-020-09926-2 APPRECIATIONS Maureen Mullarkey Accepted: 29 July 2020 /Published online: 13 October 2020 The National Association of Scholars 2020 When I learned that John Leo had retired as editor-in-chief of Minding the Campus,mythoughtsleapedtoT.S.Eliot’s final prayer at the end of Ash Wednesday: “Suffer me not to be separated.” The news came as a wrench, a decisive twist to the bolt on a repository of shaping memories. His writing was at the center of much that had stamped my wits and my interests over decades. The man entered my life through a Xeroxed copy of his December 1, 1965 column in the National Catholic Reporter. It had been handed to me by a Fordham student on the sidewalk outside the Catholic Peace Fellowship on Beekman Street. As much a j’accuse against the New York chancery as a brief in support of Daniel Berrigan, S.J., it was a rousing thing to read. A Jesuit provincial had just ordered the charismatic activist/poet/priest out of the country for his role in the anti-war movement. In passionate defense of Fr. Berrigan, Leo opened with a description of him as “one of the most Christ-like men I have ever met,” one http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Academic Questions Springer Journals

John Leo: Principle and Prescience

Mullarkey, Maureen
Academic Questions , Volume 33 (4) – Oct 13, 2020
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Acad. Quest. (2020) 33:616–621 DOI 10.1007/s12129-020-09926-2 APPRECIATIONS Maureen Mullarkey Accepted: 29 July 2020 /Published online: 13 October 2020 The National Association of Scholars 2020 When I learned that John Leo had retired as editor-in-chief of Minding the Campus,mythoughtsleapedtoT.S.Eliot’s final prayer at the end of Ash Wednesday: “Suffer me not to be separated.” The news came as a wrench, a decisive twist to the bolt on a repository of shaping memories. His writing was at the center of much that had stamped my wits and my interests over decades. The man entered my life through a Xeroxed copy of his December 1, 1965 column in the National Catholic Reporter. It had been handed to me by a Fordham student on the sidewalk outside the Catholic Peace Fellowship on Beekman Street. As much a j’accuse against the New York chancery as a brief in support of Daniel Berrigan, S.J., it was a rousing thing to read. A Jesuit provincial had just ordered the charismatic activist/poet/priest out of the country for his role in the anti-war movement. In passionate defense of Fr. Berrigan, Leo opened with a description of him as “one of the most Christ-like men I have ever met,” one

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