He was also a fearless rabble-rouser on the Detroit area’s most sensitive issue, race. He was so cocky that he often launched new programs without having the necessary funds in hand, assuming he could raise them.
Bush (when he served as vice president) to Microsoft founder Bill Gates.Ĭunningham was aggressive, impatient and resourceful, a master fund-raiser who excelled at negotiating bureaucracies and wheedling money out of Washington. He was a cigar-smoking, Dewars-drinking, Harley-driving priest who co-founded Focus: Hope and built it into one of the nation’s most unique charities, visited and praised by VIPs from President Bill Clinton to George H.W. For 30 years, until he died in 1997, at 67, Cunningham was metro Detroit’s star Catholic clergyman. Nobody, though, had a higher profile than the Rev. Some, like Monsignor Clement Kern, Bishop Thomas Gumbleton and the Capuchins, become well-known, even among non-Catholics. * If there is any truth to the adage, what comes around goes around, it is found in Cunningham's searing prophecy of a society where twenty-five is middle-aged and euthanasia has become the chief means of reducing surplus population.The Catholic Church in Detroit has a long history of priests, nuns and brothers who go beyond preaching and teaching to tend to the needy, confront racism and promote peace. * Addresses the abortion issue and makes readers re-think their view of Roe vs. When his father's termination date comes up and his mother re-enters his life, Nash must grapple with forgiveness, love, and eventually the heart and will of God as he races to save his father.
With reproduction done mechanically in a lab and the citizens being terminated for the greater good life and love have lost all meaning.Into this bleak setting steps tag man, John Nash, an unlikely and unwilling hero whose father wrote the Supreme Court majority opinion that made euthanasia mandatory. Those who resist are hunted down by tag men. It is the responsibility of each citizen to willingly be terminated at age 50. In the year 2038, abortions are the long-accepted means of population control, and euthanasia has become a means for cutting enormous health care costs.
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