King's Pawn:
Skillin, Edward S
KING'S PAWN: THE MEMOIRS OF GEORGE H. DUNNE, S.J., by George H. Dunne, Loyola University Press, $19.95, 502 pp. This is the colorful life story of an aggressive priest-activist who was intent on...
...All in all, a convincing picture of a notable career...
...The way of the crusader for human rights and social justice is often a thorny one...
...Louis and Santa Clara...
...Father Dunne's much reprinted "Sin of Segregation," published in Commonweal in 1945, is a case in point...
...Dunne does not mince words in expressing his opinion of corrupt union leaders, business moguls, and various religious adversaries who, he felt, thwarted or harassed him-in such communities as Hollywood-Los Angeles, and at such universities as St...
...But King's Pawn achieves its greatest impact in the shorter sections describing Dunne's efforts against heavy odds...
...Dunne's unexpected recall from his mission in China in the 1930s was only the first of the many frustrations this determined advocate endured at the hands of certain bishops and various Jesuit superiors...
...That was mostly in pursuit of the essential means of forwarding the cause of the Kingdom of God...
...This is the colorful life story of an aggressive priest-activist who was intent on the right things and often ahead of his time...
...There are a number of peaceful interludes in this extensive narrative: Dunne's moving account of his call to the Jesuit priesthood, his many lay and clerical friendships, his training of the Peace Corps at Georgetown, his leadership of Sodepax -the international ecumenical peace and development association-in its early days, and his worldwide travels...
...E.S.S..S.S...
...Several of his Commonweal articles, periodically cited in the course of these lively memoirs, led in one way or another to unhappy confrontations...
Vol. 117 • September 1990 • No. 15
