He was the New York Jesuit (and Regis High School grad) who battled New York’s mobbed-up and corrupt longshoremen’s union, and who was the inspiration for the movie On the Waterfront. An excellent recounting of Fr. Corridan’s brave undertakings can be found here. Below is the famous scene from the movie where Karl Malden does justice to a true man of God, concerned for the least of his brothers. Today marks the 100th birthday of the good Padre, who died in 1984 and who will never be forgotten.

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