Carl Hensler (priest)

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name=Carl Hensler


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birth_name=Carl Peter Hensler
birth_date=November 7, 1898
birth_place=Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
death_date=November, 1984
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nationality=United States
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known_for=Catholic Radical Alliance
education=St. Vincent's Seminary, North American College
employer=Roman Catholic Diocese of Pittsburgh
occupation=priest
title=Monsignor
religion=Roman Catholic
parents=Charles P. Hensler, Margaret E. Klein
relatives=Mary Hensler, Frank Hensler
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Carl Hensler was an American Roman Catholic priest of the Diocese of Pittsburgh. He was trained at St. Vincent Seminary in Latrobe, Pennsylvania and at the North American College in Rome. After an initial spell in Braddock, Pennsylvania, he left for China to help establish the Catholic University of Peking. He returned to Pittsburgh as an assistant pastor at St. Lawrence, and was a founding member of the Catholic Radical Alliance. He died in 1984. [Kenneth J. Heineman "A Catholic New Deal: Religion and Reform in Depression Pittsburgh". Penn State Press, 1999 page 211 ISBN 0271018968]

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Archives of the Diocese of Pittsburgh, Record Group 22, subgroup 01I [http://www.diopitt.org/archives/archiv2.htm]