Fighter with a Heart: Writings of Charles Owen Rice, Pittsburgh Labor Priest

by Ed McCollester

Monsignor Charles Owen Rice stands out as one of the most influential religious figures in western Pennsylvania history. As Pittsburgh\u2019s controversial labor priest, he has had a major impact on the American labor movement. A radio commentator for for forty years and a newspaper columnist for nearly sixty, he has raised his voice to support workers\u2019 struggles, resist racists, chide the comfortable, and champion the poor, the homeless, and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822956195
• ISBN13: 9780822956198
• Release Date: November 1996
• Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 8.8" x 10.4"

Customer Reviews

Great book

Through Rice's own writing the book gives a nice history of one our centuries great leftist-Catholic activists, sampling Rice's writings from the thirties through the nineties. It has given me a sharp sense of the issues that were in the minds a generation of Pittsburghers who, like my working class grandparents, hung on Father Rices' words during his regular radio commentaries, and looked to him as a defender and educator through a period of great change. The paperback is nicely put together in a large format and includes many black and white illustrations.