James Kavanaugh
Appearance
James Kavanaugh (died Kalamazoo, Michigan 29 December 2009[1]) was an American Roman Catholic priest best remembered for an iconoclastic call for reform published in 1967.[2][3][4]
References
- ^ "James Kavanaugh dies at 81; former Catholic priest wrote book calling for church reform". L.A. Times. January 9, 2010. Archived from the original on February 22, 2014. Retrieved January 31, 2014.
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suggested) (help) "He left the priesthood after publishing 'A Modern Priest Looks at His Outdated Church,' a national bestseller." - ^ Michael W. Cuneo The Smoke of Satan: Conservative and Traditionalist Dissent 1999 "In 1967 he came across a newly published book by an American priest named Jim Kavanaugh which convinced him that ... More so than perhaps any other book of its day, A Modern Priest Looks at His Outdated Church exemplified the iconoclastic thinking to which many Catholic intellectuals in the United States were drawn in the wake of the council.
- ^ L. Roger Sockwell Legalism and the Sins of the Church -2002 Page 46 "Equivalently capturing my own anguish and anger at the force of legalism in the protestant churches, is a stunning sequence offered by Father James Kavanaugh in his astonishing work called "A Modern Priest Looks at His Outdated Church."
- ^ The Western Socialist - Volumes 33-35 1966- Page 216 "Father James Kavanaugh is the author of a widely-read book, A Priest Looks at His Church, in which he was highly critical of, but still loyal to, the Church."