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A new portrait of the Catholic church during apartheid, told through the life of Cardinal Owen McCann.
Drawing on newly opened Vatican archives and Owen McCann’s personal archives in Cape Town, Alexandra Maclennan offers the first full biography of Cardinal Owen McCann (1907–1994), a pivotal yet often overlooked figure in twentieth-century South African history. Born in a mixed-ethnicity, working-class neighborhood of Cape Town and educated by Irish religious orders, McCann rose to become South Africa’s first cardinal and a key moral voice during the long years of apartheid.
Maclennan traces how McCann’s formation in Catholic Social Teaching shaped his quiet but persistent engagement with South Africa’s racial crisis. As bishop, he lobbied government officials against apartheid laws, used the official Catholic newspaper The Southern Cross to challenge segregation, and defended non-European communities affected by discriminatory legislation. At the same time, newly revealed Vatican diplomatic correspondence shows how the Holy See responded to apartheid and what instructions they gave to the Apostolic Delegate, complicating assumptions about Catholic silence or complicity.
Spanning McCann’s life from the interwar years through Vatican II and the collapse of apartheid, Cardinal Owen McCann illuminates the Catholic Church’s evolving self-understanding amid decolonization, political authoritarianism, and moral crisis—and restores a forgotten cardinal to his place in history.
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