There is a crisis of Catholic identity in America. The torch of Catholic leadership is now in different hands than a generation ago. While America’s Catholics may be divided into rival political and factional tribes, what brings our cast of influentials together is a shared concern over Catholic values.
Nowhere is this more evident than in Catholic education. Indeed, to understand why we are launching our new US Catholic leaders special report – celebrating the top 250 Catholics helping to shape American society for the better – we can start with a visit made last November to the Rochester, NY, campus of the Aquinas Institute by its old alumnus, the financier Robert Agostinelli.
