He fathered 10 children with his wife, Helen Haye Cort, and he cantored in his local parish until his death.
[4] Raised Episcopal,[1] he attended the choir school of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York City from the age of 10.
[2] After graduating from Harvard College cum laude in 1935[2][5] and converting to Catholicism,[citation needed] Cort was moved by a speech by Dorothy Day in May 1936.
[citation needed] He helped found the Association of Catholic Trade Unionists and for several years he edited their periodical, the Labor Leader.
[9][12] He was described as "personally conservative but socially and politically radical, well-read but never pedantic, funny, chivalrous, of broad culture but a man of the people."