In the first full narrative chapter of Spiritual Criminals: How the Camden 28 Put the Vietnam War on Trial, Michelle Nickerson sets up the contextual train of teaching and ideas in the United States, Catholic and otherwise, that allowed the “Camden 28” to come into being. Her goal is to explain how a Catholic Left, or “Resistance,” could arise. Of course the Vietnam War sets a unique context, but Catholicism itself had a history in the United States that could explain political tendencies that fit the right, left, and center. One pivotal postwar figure for Catholics and politics was Cardinal Read more