Robert Blair Kaiser
Robert Blair Kaiser (born 1930) is an American author and journalist, best known for his writing on the Catholic Church.
As a correspondent for Time Magazine, he won the Overseas Press Club's Ed Cunningham Award in 1962 for the "best magazine reporting from abroad" for his reporting on the Second Vatican Council [1].
Four of his thirteen published books deal with Catholic Church reform. His latest books include A Church in Search of Itself: Benedict XVI and the Battle for the Future and "Cardinal Mahony: A Novel." A new version of his 1970 best seller, R.F.K. Must Die!" was published in 2008, with a new sub-title, "Chasing the Mystery of the Robert Kennedy Assassination.
Kaiser has given moral support to the American Catholic Council, a reform group within the Roman Catholic Church in the United States. [1]
Kaiser's speech in Ireland on August 19, 2010, at the Humbert Summer School, entitled "Catholic Church Reform: No More Thrones," called for Irish Catholics to boldly initiate an ecclesiastical revolution through which they would remove secretive hierarchy, take back their cathedrals, and elect their own bishops.
[edit] Partial bibliography
- A Church in Search of Itself: Benedict XVI and the Battle for the Future (2006) ISBN 0-375-41064-3
- Clerical Error: A True Story (2002) ISBN 0826413846
- The Encyclical That Never Was: The Story of the Commission on Population, Family and Birth, 1964-66 (1987) ISBN 0-7220-3405-9
- The Politics of Sex and Religion: A Case History in the Development of Doctrine, 1962-1984 (1985) ISBN 0-934134-16-2
- Pope, Council, and World: The Story of Vatican II (1963)
- R.F.K. Must Die! Chasing the Mystery of the Robert Kennedy Assassination (2008) ISBN 1590201248
- "Cardinal Mahony: A Novel" 2008 ISBN 978-0-9646642-9-6
[edit] References
- ^ "Overseas Press Club 1962 Award Winners". http://www.opcofamerica.org/opc_awards/archive/awards_1962.php. Retrieved December 5, 2005.[dead link]
