"Utter Ruthlessness and Brutality": An Archdiocese Fights Back When a Major Newspaper Compares Saint Ignatius Loyola to Adolf Hitler
When The Baltimore Sun, a major metropolitan daily newspaper, equated St. Ignatius Loyola to Adolf Hitler and stated that both men functioned with "utter ruthlessness and brutality," Baltimore Archbishop Michael "Iron Mike" Curley decided he was not going to tolerate the insult t...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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American Catholic Historical Society
[2018]
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American catholic studies
Year: 2018, Volume: 129, Issue: 4, Pages: 45-68 |
| RelBib Classification: | KAJ Church history 1914-; recent history KBQ North America KCA Monasticism; religious orders KDB Roman Catholic Church ZG Media studies; Digital media; Communication studies |
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| Summary: | When The Baltimore Sun, a major metropolitan daily newspaper, equated St. Ignatius Loyola to Adolf Hitler and stated that both men functioned with "utter ruthlessness and brutality," Baltimore Archbishop Michael "Iron Mike" Curley decided he was not going to tolerate the insult to the patron saint of his archdiocese. Curley and his newspaper, The Baltimore Catholic Review, launched a public and prolonged battle to compel The Sun to retract its insult and apologize. Fearing that its First Amendment rights to free expression would be compromised, The Sun and its famous editor H.L. Mencken refused. The resulting editorial warfare and public boycott embroiled the archdiocese of Baltimore in controversy and threatened The Sun's existence. This became one of the most spirited battles undertaken by any Catholic newspaper in the history of the American Catholic press. |
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| ISSN: | 2161-8534 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: American catholic studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1353/acs.2018.0066 |