Rev. Marvin O’Connell

Rev. Marvin R. O'Connell is a priest of the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis.  He has taught at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul and at the University of Notre Dame, specializing in Catholic Church History.  Father O’Connell has lectured widely in this country and abroad and is the author of several books and hundreds of articles.  He is best known among Notre Dame students and friends as the biographer of the university’s founder, Fr. Sorin.  Among his other books are:  Critics on Trial: An Introduction to the Catholic Modernist Crisis, The Counter Reformation: 1559-1610, The Oxford Conspirators: A History of the Oxford Movement 1833-1845, and the novel McElroy.