Education
The Catholic University of America.
sociologist university professor
The Catholic University of America.
During World World War II, he was a conscientious objector, and served in a Civilian Public Service camp established by the Catholic Worker Movement. Zahn later transferred to Rosewood State Training School in Maryland, a school for the developmentally disabled. He worked there as a conscientious objector until April, 1946.
His experiences at Rosewood were published in the Catholic Worker in the July and October 1946 issues, as a continuation of his attempt to reform Rosewood.
Gallagher describes Zahn"s career in detail. In 1946 Zahn and a friend went to Saint John"s University in Collegeville, Minnesota.
There they met Eugene McCarthy, who hired them when he became a United States. Senator. Zahn got a Doctor of Philosophy from The Catholic University of America and then a job at Loyola University Chicago.
According to Gallagher, Cardinal Bea pressured Loyola and a German publisher to stop Zahn"s book German Catholics and Hitler"s Wars, but it did not work.
Zahn was later hired away by the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Zahn was important in the debate over warfare in the, specifically Schema 13. Through Richard Carbray, and archbishop Thomas Roberts, Zahn was introduced to Abbot Cuthbert Butler.
Zahn gave talks and wrote a speech for Butler.
Gallagher implies this all led to Schema 13 supporting conscientious objectors and denouncing "weapons of mass destruction".