| Barry O'Toole | |
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| Born | 1886 Toledo, Ohio |
| Died | 1944 Washington, D.C. |
| Nationality | United States |
| Education | St. John College, Toledo, Ohio |
| Occupation | college professor, college president, missionary, priest |
| Title | Monsignor |
| Religion | Roman Catholic |
George Barry O'Toole was a founding member of the Catholic Radical Alliance.[1] He was important for clarifying the right of Catholics to conscientious objector status. He began his religious career as a parish priest, and as a U.S. Army chaplain in World War I.
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He taught philosophy at both St. Vincent College, Latrobe, Pennsylvania and Seton Hill College He was the first president of the Catholic University of Peking.[2] He also was the head of the Philosophy department at Duquesne University.
He was a founding member of the Catholic Radical Alliance, an early labor support organization in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and was important to the foundation of St. Joseph's House of Hospitality, also in Pittsburgh.
In 1939, he stated that a just war was nearly impossible, because the "modern abuse of universal conscription" made wars on so gigantic a scale as to be unjustifiable.[3] Later he testified before a Senate hearing in opposition to the Burke-Wadsworth Act, a conscription act pending before Congress in 1940.