Barry O'Toole

Barry O'Toole

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name=Barry O'Toole


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birth_date=1886
birth_place=Toledo, Ohio
death_date=1944
death_place=Washington, D.C.
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nationality=United States
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education=St. John College, Toledo, Ohio
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occupation=college professor, college president, missionary, priest
title=Monsignor
religion=Roman Catholic
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George Barry O'Toole was a founding member of the Catholic Radical Alliance. [Cite journal |last=Day |first=Dorothy |title=Msgr. Barry O'Toole |journal=Catholic Worker |year=1944 |issue=June |pages=6-7 |url=http://www.catholicworker.org/dorothyday/daytext.cfm?TextID=402$SearcgTerm=catholic%20University |accessdate=7-12-2008 ] He was important for clarifying the right of
Catholics to conscientious objector status. He began his religious career as a parish priest, and as a U.S. Army chaplain in World War I.

Education career

He taught philosophy at both St. Vincent College, Latrobe, Pennsylvania and Seton Hill CollegeHe was the first president of the Catholic University of Peking. [cite web |title=Priests, Pickets, Pickle Workers |url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0.9171,988118.00.html |accessdate=7-12-2008] He also was the head of the Philosophy department at Duquesne University.

Labor Activities

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

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. [cite journal |last=O'Toole |first=G. Barry |title=Against Conscription |journal=Catholic Worker |year=1939 |issue=November ] Later he testified before a Senate hearing in opposition to the Burke-Wadsworth Act, a conscription act pending before Congress in 1940.

Publications

* Ch'ien-li Ying and George Barry O'Toole "The Nestorian tablet at Sianfu: a new English translation of the inscription and a history of the stone. Peking Leader Press, Peking 1929
* George Barry O'Toole "War and conscription at the bar of Christian morals." 1941
* "Racism and Christianity; Race: Nation: Person. Social Aspects of the Race Problem, A Symposium." Bishop Joseph M. Corrigan and G. Barry O'Toole, editors. Barnes & Noble, Inc., New York (1944) OCLC 150690057
* "Luo ji xue: Zhong Ying dui zhao." George Barry O'Toole and Quianli Ying, Beijing (1931) OCLC 26088581
* "John of Montecorvino, First Archbishop of Peking". George Barry O'Toole, Latrobe, Pennsylvania
* "The Last Romans "Ostatni Rzymianie": A Tale of the Time of Theodosius the Great. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, (1936)

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