Patrick J. Hayes

For the last decade my passion has been to teach and write in Catholic theology, ethics, and church history. I graduated in 2003 from the Catholic University of America with a doctorate in religious studies. My first book, A Catholic Brain Trust (University of Notre Dame Press, 2011), tells the story of a group of intellectuals who formed after World War II. Their story is an aspect of Catholic community-building. Their work is, I think, an important instructional commentary for Catholics who today seek to make their mark on the wider society.

Most of my other publications, apart from individual essays, have been edited volumes. These include a two-volume work, The Making of Modern Immigration: An Encyclopedia of People and Ideas (ABC-CLIO, 2012) and Miracles: An Encyclopedia of People, Places and Supernatural Events from Antiquity to the Present (ABC-CLIO, 2016). I've been co-editor on a festschrift, A Realist's Church (Orbis Books, 2015). My latest edited volume is the Civil War Diary of James Sheeran, CSSR: Confederate, Chaplain, Redemptorist, soon to be published by Catholic University of America Press.

I am at work on a biography of Patrick Cardinal Hayes (no relation; d. 1938) of New York which not only will delve into his career, but will highlight his abiding engagement with the culture of New York City. I am also working on several shorter articles, mostly connected with the work I do for the Baltimore Province of the Redemptorists, in whose archives I am privileged to work. Feel free to drop me a line at pjhayesphd@gmail.com.