Robert Blair Kaiser
Encyclopedia
Robert Blair Kaiser 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
.
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.
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.
United States
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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
Overseas Press Club
The Overseas Press Club of America was founded in 1939 in New York City by a group of foreign correspondents. The wire service reporter Carol Weld was a founding member...
Ed Cunningham Award in 1962 for the "best magazine reporting from abroad" for his reporting on the Second Vatican Council
Second Vatican Council
The Second Vatican Council addressed relations between the Roman Catholic Church and the modern world. It was the twenty-first Ecumenical Council of the Catholic Church and the second to be held at St. Peter's Basilica in the Vatican. It opened under Pope John XXIII on 11 October 1962 and closed...
.
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.
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.
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