Anthony Stevens-Arroyo is an American scholar, academic and Roman Catholic apologist, who publishes the Catholic America blog. He has been professor of Puerto Rican and Latino studies at Brooklyn College

Brooklyn College

Brooklyn College is a senior college of the City University of New York, located in Brooklyn, New York, United States.Established in 1930 by the New York City Board of Higher Education, the College had its beginnings as the Downtown Brooklyn branches of Hunter College and the City College of New...

 for many years.

A polarizing figure, he has been called a "left-wing hack" ... who "wrote that Catholics should 'embrace a redistribution of wealth'", while at the same time he is a staunchly traditionalist Roman Catholic who has publicly espoused the proposed canonizations of Queen Isabella of Spain and Pope Pius XII

Pope Pius XII

The Venerable Pope Pius XII , born Eugenio Maria Giuseppe Giovanni Pacelli , reigned as Pope, head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of Vatican City State, from 2 March 1939 until his death in 1958....

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Stevens-Arroyo's position in defense of Isabella was published in the New York Times on April 27, 1991, entitled, "Why Isabella Qualifies for Sainthood", to wit:

Assuredly, Isabella signed the decree that created the Inquisition. Should she be held accountable ever after for every abuse committed by that institution? Serious scholarship of the period suggests that the Inquisition was intended as a legal barrier to wild denunciations and mob attacks on converts.

External links

• "About Anthony Stevens-Arroyo"
• "Why I am not a Catholic Liberal", Catholic America blog (August 2008)