biography
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| (1877–1950)
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| biography:
| Journalist, born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. Emigrating to the USA as a penniless youth, he was a newspaper reporter in Boston, New York, and San Francisco, before his conversion to active Catholicism (1912), which he recounted in a colourful memoir, The Book of High Romance (1918). Seeking to create a Catholic intellectual periodical under lay auspices, he co-founded Commonweal magazine (1914) and was its editor until 1937. |
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