Table of Contents

Introduction: A Papal Choice and a Papal Charge

Chapter 1. An Embedded Priesthood

Chapter 2. Priestly Service in Times of War

Chapter 3. An Unexpected Nomination

Chapter 4. Church and Society in a New Land

Chapter 5. The First Steps of a New Bishop

Chapter 6. An Iconoclastic Bishop

Chapter 7. The Fayt

Chapter 8. The Critical Years

Chapter 9. Stable Development in Unstable Times

Chapter 10. Salvation Through Education

Chapter 11. The Second World War

Chapter 12. Growth Through Tragedy

Chapter 13. The Productive 1950s

Chapter 14. Task Completed

Archives and Selected Bibliography

Index