As a companion piece to Anne Burke's Voice of the Faithful speech last week, which I posted yesterday, I'm now posting Joseph O'Callaghan's comments to the VOTF gathering as he received the Saint Catherine of Siena award on 14 September. As with Anne Burke's speech, Joe O'Callaghan's commentary comes to us by way of Jerry Slevin--and I'm very grateful both to Jerry and to Joe for their generosity in seeing that this material is made available to Bilgrimage readers. Joseph O'Callaghan is a professor emeritus of history from Fordham University, author of Electing Our Bishops (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2007), and a leader of the active Bridgeport, Connecticut, VOTF group. His presentation as he received the Saint Catherine of Siena award follows:
