Career
Cunningham was a parish priest for five years, then in 1961 joined the faculty of Sacred Heart Seminary as an English professor He was a columnist and book review editor of the Michigan Catholic. Cunningham and Eleanor Josaitis co-founded Focus: Health Opportunities for People Everywhere, a non-profit civil and human rights organization intended to help to resolve discrimination and injustice and to build a harmonious community on March 6, 1968, spurred by the destructive 1967 Detroit riot they witnessed.
Cunningham died of a liver infection following cancer surgery in 1997.
In 2005, members from the Church of the Madonna and its music director, William South. Harrison, honored Cunningham"s legacy with the French
