Here’s an interesting article that came via my google alerts that are at least tangentially related to Rochester.
catholicculture.org: Eugene Genovese, a Communist turned Catholic
|Eugene recounts how they were invited by the Catholic chaplains of the University of Rochester to participate in a public discussion with some Catholic Marxists (American proponents of liberation theology). The Genoveses, two Marxists who did not believe in God, found themselves “driven to defend Catholic theology against ‘dissident Catholics’ who had no time for the fundamentals of Catholic theology, Church doctrine, and the teachings of the Vatican”