James Carroll was ordained a Catholic priest in 1969, then gave up the priesthood a short five years later. Those were turbulent years ? for Carroll and for the country. As a chaplain at Boston University, he was a self-described “radical priest” and anti-war activist, opposing U.S. involvement in Vietnam. His 1996 memoir, “An American Requiem: God, My Father, and the War that Came Between Us,” covers that difficult journey and won the National Book Award. Carroll, 68, a columnist for The Boston Globe, was in Madison last week for a series of events as a visiting fellow of the Lubar Institute for the Study of Abrahamic Religions at UW-Madison.
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