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Burke, John J (Joseph)

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Burke, John J (Joseph) (1875-1936)

US religious leader. He helped to organize the bishops' group known as the National Catholic War Council during World War I. As general secretary (from 1919) of its successor, the National Catholic Welfare Council (later, Conference), he was a respected voice for Catholic interests and social reform.

He was born in New York City. Ordained priest in the Paulist Fathers, a Catholic missionary order in New York, he was editor of the Catholic World 1904-22. In 1936 he became a monsignor, an honorary Catholic title.



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