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The Reverend
Barry O'Toole
OSB
1st PresidentofFu Jen Catholic University
In office
1925–1929
Succeeded byChen Yuan (historian)
Personal details
Born1886
Toledo, Ohio
Died(1944-03-26)26 March 1944
Washington, D.C.
Alma materSt. John College, Toledo, Ohio

George Barry O'Toole, OSB (1886 – 26 March 1944[1]) was an American Catholic priest and activist. He was a member of the Benedictines and a founding member of the Catholic Radical Alliance.[2]

Career[edit]

He was important for clarifying the right of Catholicstoconscientious objector status. He began his religious career as a parish priest and as a U.S. Army chaplaininWorld War I.

Education career[edit]

He taught philosophy at both St. Vincent College, Latrobe, Pennsylvania and Seton Hill College. He was the first president (rector) of the Catholic University of Peking.[3] He also was the head of the Philosophy department at Duquesne University.

Labor activities[edit]

He was a founding member of the Catholic Radical Alliance, an early labor support organization in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and was important to the foundation of St. Joseph's House of Hospitality, also in Pittsburgh.

Pacifist activities[edit]

In 1939, he stated that a just war was nearly impossible, because the "modern abuse of universal conscription" made wars on so gigantic a scale as to be unjustifiable.[4] Later he testified before a Senate hearing in opposition to the Burke-Wadsworth Act, a conscription act pending before Congress in 1940.

Creationism[edit]

O'Toole was the author of the creationist book The Case Against Evolution (1925). The book was dismissed by academics as a "religious and not a scientific work".[5]

Science writer Martin Gardner noted that O'Toole endorsed the "naive criticism of strata chronology" from creationist George McCready Price.[6]

Publications[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Southern Cross newspaper, 22 April 1944, p. 3
  • ^ Day, Dorothy (1944). "Msgr. Barry O'Toole". Catholic Worker (June): 6–7. Retrieved July 12, 2008.[permanent dead link]
  • ^ "Priests, Pickets, Pickle Workers". Archived from the original on 2020-07-04. Retrieved July 12, 2008.
  • ^ O'Toole, G. Barry (1939). "Against Conscription". Catholic Worker (November).
  • ^ Numbers, Ronald L. (1992). The Creationists. University of California Press. p. 55. ISBN 0-520-08393-8
  • ^ Gardner, Martin. (1957). Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science. Dover Publications. p. 133. ISBN 0-486-20394-8
  • Academic offices
    Preceded by

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    President of Fu Jen Catholic University
    1925–1929
    Succeeded by

    Chen Yuan (historian)


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