18 Facts About Paul Blanshard

Paul Beecher Blanshard was an American author, assistant editor of The Nation magazine, lawyer, socialist, secular humanist, and from 1949 an outspoken critic of Catholicism.

Paul Blanshard's clothing caught fire, and she died a day later of severe burns.

In 1902, Reverend Paul Blanshard bade his mother and sons goodbye.

Orminda Paul Blanshard raised her grandsons on an annual pension of $250 from the Methodist church while the boys washed dishes at a restaurant.

In 1910 the Paul Blanshard brothers entered the University of Michigan, whose annual tuition was only $30 for state residents.

Paul Blanshard found his studies replete with "verbal evasion" and wryly observed that "This institution was what Mark Twain would have called a theological cemetery".

Paul Blanshard joined the Boston Socialist Party and sometimes was dispatched to local strikes as a clerical agitator.

Paul Blanshard described his early preaching experience as relying more upon Bernard Shaw than the Bible.

Paul Blanshard was ordained in a ceremony which first must conclude that the candidate is fit.

Those thoughts notwithstanding, Paul Blanshard later finalized a divinity degree at Union Theological Seminary.

Paul Blanshard decided to pursue credentials in Law, completing much of his studies in night school, and graduating LLB in 1937 from Brooklyn Law School.

Paul Blanshard was one of the signers of the Humanist Manifesto.

Fifty years old by the onset of World War II, Paul Blanshard served the State Department as an official in Washington and the Caribbean.

Paul Blanshard was an associate editor of The Nation and served during the 1950s as that magazine's special correspondent in Uzbekistan.

Paul Blanshard is noted for writing American Freedom and Catholic Power, which attacked the Holy See on grounds that it was a dangerous, powerful, foreign and undemocratic institution.

Kennedy presumed that Paul Blanshard would be there and studied the 1958 second edition of American Freedom and Catholic Power in preparation.

One week after the inauguration of President Kennedy, Paul Blanshard spoke to a crowd of three thousand at Constitution Hall in Washington on the subject of a Catholic President.

Paul Blanshard then represented Protestants and Others United for Separation of Church and State, now called Americans United for Separation of Church and State.