John J. Burke

John J. Burke (June 6, 1875 in New York City[1]–1936) was a Paulist priest and editor of the Catholic World from 1903 to 1922.

A central point of Burke's writing and lecturing concerned the supernatural element of charity.

Burke told the 1915 graduating class of New York's College of Mount Saint Vincent-on-Hudson that, for two millennia, the Church has pursued as her "one great purpose" to lead souls to the love of God.

[7] In 1929, Archbishop Pietro Fumasoni-Biondi, apostolic delegate to the United States, named Burke his agent in matters pertaining to the Mexican religious conflict known as the Cristero War.

Burke worked closely with Dwight Whitney Morrow, the US ambassador to Mexico, to broker an end to the conflict.