Biography

In a 1930 article entitled "A Plea for Intolerance," he held that the United States was not plagued by bigotry so much as it was plagued by the "weird fungus of broadmindedness": "A bigoted man is one who refuses to accept a reason for anything; a broadminded man is one who will accept anything for a reason, providing it is not a good reason.".

Bachelor of Arts (BA) in Theology and Canon Law, Catholic University (1920); Doctorate in Philosophy (PhD), University of Louvain, Belgium (1923); Doctorate in Theology (DD), Angelicum University, Rome (1924).

Ironically, for a man whose words ultimately reached millions, he was dismissed from his high school debate team for being a poor public speaker.

Upon his death, his remains were interred at Saint Patrick's Cathedral on Fifth Avenue in New York City. His location plot is Crypt under the altar.

Awarded an Emmy in 1952 for being chosen as television's "Most Oustanding Personality".

It used to be that the Catholics were the only ones to believe in the Immaculate Conception. Now everyone believes he is the immaculately conceived.

The Rabbis and Priests and Ministers stopped talking about sin. The Jurists picked it up and turned sin into a crime, and finally Psychiatrists converted it into a complex. The result is that no one is a sinner.

[on flattery] Baloney is flattery laid on so thick it cannot be true, and blarney is flattery so thin we love it.

I feel it is time I also pay tribute to my four writers - Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.

A bigoted man is one who refuses to accept a reason for anything; a broadminded man is one who will accept anything for a reason, providing it is not a good reason.