James Kavanaugh
James Kavanaugh was an American Roman Catholic priest, author, and poet best remembered for an iconoclastic call for reform published in 1967.
Born in Kalamazoo, Michigan, and ordained in 1954, Kavanaugh served as a parish priest in Lansing and Flint, Michigan before earning a doctorate at the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. His 1967 book, A Modern Priest Looks at His Outdated Church, became a national bestseller.
