The Rarest Kind of Courage: The Extraordinary Life of Fr. John Markoe

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The Rarest Kind of Courage: The Extraordinary Life of Fr. John Markoe
A 1914 graduate of West Point, John Markoe used to be a gridiron hero who played against the likes of Jim Thorpe. He used to be a dashing, highly regarded cavalry officer – Dwight Eisenhower known as him the most productive potential officer he’d ever seen – whose brief military career ended in shame and scandal. He used to be a Jesuit priest for fifty years and an alcoholic for fifty-seven. And for five decades he used to be a pioneering battler for racial equality, combining Jesuit spirituality with his military training as he worked in cities like St. Louis and Omaha to enhance opportunities for African-Americans at the same time as striving to convince white Americans that racism used to be a sin.

A much-needed story of persistence and faith, this book is a marvel of diligent historical recovery. What Holland accomplishes in this book is to give us more than one portraits of one of the vital complex (and complicated) Catholic priests to live and work and bear witness to the reason for social/racial justice in this country. …the actual story of a true son of Ignatius, a soldier, scholar, advocate for justice, a man who never let his own weaknesses dissuade him from answering the call to develop into the places where he journeyed. It gives us hope.

from the foreword by Joseph A. Brown, S.J.; Ph.D.
Professor; Director; School of Africana and Multicultural Studies
Southern Illinois University Carbondale

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