Emmanuel Charles McCarthy

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Emmanuel Charles McCarthy (born October 9, 1940){{cn|date=March 2024}} is an American priest of the Melkite Catholic Church, as well as a peace activist and author.

After a career in academia at the University of Notre Dame, he was ordained on August 9, 1981, in Damascus.{{Cite speech |last=McCarthy |first=Charles |date=September 13, 1981 |title=First sermon of Emmanuel Charles McCarthy |url=https://www.emmanuelcharlesmccarthy.org/first-homily-by-fr-mccarthy-september-13-1981/}}

Career

Charles C. McCarthy was born and raised in Boston. He studied at the University of Notre Dame, and taught there until 1969.{{Cite news |last=Gray |first=Amanda |date=October 26, 2013 |title=Anti-war priest to lecture at Notre Dame |url=https://www.southbendtribune.com/story/news/local/2013/10/26/anti-war-priest-to-lecture-at-notre-dame/117160710/ |access-date=2024-03-31 |work=South Bend Tribune |language=en-US}} At Notre Dame, he received his baccalaureate and master's degrees; he also holds a doctorate of jurisprudence from Boston College.{{Cite news |date=2015-04-16 |title=Peace practitioner Father McCarthy will lead conference on 'Gospel Nonviolence' - Georgia Bulletin |url=https://georgiabulletin.org/events/announcement/peace-practitioner-father-mccarthy-will-lead-conference-on-gospel-nonviolence/ |access-date=2024-03-31 |work=Georgia Bulletin |language=en-US}}

In 1969, he resigned his position as director of the Center for the Study of Nonviolence at Notre Dame after the expulsion (and suspension) of ten students, who had protested against the CIA and recruiters for Dow Chemical.{{Cite news |date=November 19, 1969 |title=Notre Dame Expels 5 in C.I.A. Protest |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1969/11/19/archives/notre-dame-expels-5-in-cia-protest.html |work=The New York Times}} In 1972, still a layman, he met Father George Benedict Zabelka and beginning the latter's journey to Christian nonviolence; in 1980, an interview between the two men was published in the magazine Sojourners.{{Cite magazine |last=McCarthy |first=Charles C. |date=1980-08-01 |title='I Was Told It Was Necessary' |url=https://sojo.net/magazine/august-1980/i-was-told-it-was-necessary |access-date=2024-03-31 |magazine=Sojourners |language=EN}} He also ran for Senate in the 1972 United States Senate election in Massachusetts, focusing on participatory democracy,{{Cite news |last=McGourty |first=John |date=February 28, 1972 |title=Senate candidate to explain alternative platform tomorrow |url=https://dc.suffolk.edu/journal/1245 |access-date=2024-04-01 |work=Suffolk Journal |pages=1 |volume=27 |issue=7}} but did not gain the nomination of the Democratic Party.

In 1981, he was ordained a priest in the Melkite Catholic Church.

In 1992, "he was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize for his life’s work of endeavoring to bring the Nonviolent God to the Christian Churches through the Nonviolent Word of God Incarnate, the Nonviolent Jesus, and through the Churches to bring the Nonviolent God of love as revealed by Jesus to all humanity."{{Cite web |title=Center for Christian Nonviolence: About Us |url=https://www.emmanuelcharlesmccarthy.org/about-us/}}

Personal life

File:Pope John Paul II and Emmanuel Charles Mccarthy.jpg with Rev. McCarthy at the concelebration of the canonization of Edith Stein in 1998]]

McCarthy and his wife Mary had twelve children, including Teresia Benedicta, named after Edith Stein, also known as St. Teresia Benedicta a Cruce. In 1987, after swallowing numerous packets of acetaminophen, two-year-old Benedicta was healed of liver failure following a prayer chain to the martyr; her doctor at Massachusetts General Hospital described her recovery as "miraculous".{{Cite news |last=Goodstein |first=Laurie |date=October 11, 1998 |title=Child's Close Call Aided Nun's Way To Sainthood |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1998/10/11/world/child-s-close-call-aided-nun-s-way-to-sainthood.html |access-date=2024-03-30 |work=The New York Times}} Benedicta herself later recalled that "there was no gradual recovery".{{Cite news |date=April 1, 2010 |title=Vatican Deemed Toddler's Near-Death Experience a Miracle |url=https://abcnews.go.com/2020/miracle-benedicta-mccarthy-survived-tylenol-overdose-prayer-sister/story?id=10251732 |access-date=2024-03-31 |work=ABC News |language=en}} This was accepted by the Vatican as one of the requisite miracles for canonization, which occurred on October 11, 1998, with McCarthy concelebrating Mass with Pope John Paul II.{{Cite news |last=Boudreaux |first=Richard |date=1998-10-12 |title=Jewish-Born Nun, Killed by Nazis, Is Made a Saint |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1998-oct-12-mn-31816-story.html |access-date=2024-03-31 |work=The Los Angeles Times |language=en-US}}

Bibliography

All Things Flee Thee For Thou Fleest Me: A Cry to the Churches and Their Leaders to Stop Running from The Nonviolent Jesus and His Nonviolent Way [2018]
Christian Just War Theory: The Logic of Deceit [2018]
Stations of the Cross of Nonviolent Love{{Cite web |title=Center for Christian Nonviolence: Books |url=https://www.emmanuelcharlesmccarthy.org/books-2/}}
The War in Iraq and the Requirement of Moral Certainty
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