Paul Hanly Furfey

Paul Hanly Furfey (1896 – 1992) was an American Roman Catholic priest and sociologist, whom a biographer called "one of U.S. Catholicism’s greatest champions of peace and social justice." He was spiritual advisor to Servant of God Catherine de Hueck Doherty, founder of the Madonna House Apostolate and Friendship House, and he introduced Doherty to Servant of God Dorothy Day and Peter Maurin. Thomas Merton considered him a strong early spiritual influence who caused him to more deeply consider the path he eventually took, entering the Trappist monastery. The Association for the Sociology of Religion gives the Furfey lecture annually in his honor, and credits him with coining the term "metasociology" in a 1953 book. Provided by Wikipedia