A Modern Priest Looks At His Outdated Church

Dedication
To all who have loved me just as I am

YOU ARE YOUR OWN ANSWER

You are your own answer,
Beyond books and seers, psychics or doctors
Beyond the strength that comes
from what you have accomplished.
Your weakness is as valuable as your strength,
Your helplessness as lovable as your charm.
You are God's Child and each step on the way,
He gives you bread and not a stone,
food and not a serpent.
All is part of the plan, as you look within
and listen to the quiet, persistent voice
that tells you who you are...
From Quiet water

A Modern Priest Looks At His Outdated Church. 25th Anniversary Edition
(Paperback - June1, 1992)
Over 1 Million Copies In Print.
8 months on the NY Times Best Seller List.

The 1967 best selling reprinted in its entirety with a new introduction. Twenty five years ago, this classic book rocked the Catholic world. The spiritual controversy and religious revolution rages on today.

A Modern Priest Looks At His Outdated Church has been called "the most challenging and controversial" spiritual book of our times. Written by a young Catholic Priest, Fr. James Kavanaugh, it rocked the religions world as few books in history have. This book replaced medieval myths about sin and hell, with the courage of private conscience and personal contact with a loving God. With a new introduction and conclusion by its author, A Modern Priest enlightens another generation struggling with the same basic issues.

Europeans titled it, "A Protest of Love," since James Kavanaugh wrote from the heart to save the Churches by separating mythological traditions from the historic truths they veiled. The ideal book for persons attempting to recover from religious guilt. To understand what precipitated the religious revolution of the 70’s, this book is the enduring classic.

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25 Years Later - Introduction Original Preface and Dedication Original Introduction

Product Details

Paperback: 190 pages

Publisher: Steven J. Nash Publishing (June 1, 1992)

Language: English

ISBN-10: 1878995162

ISBN-13: 978-1878995162

Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.5 x 1 inches

Shipping Weight: 10.4 ounces

"..one of the most moving human documents I have ever read. It will be a rare reader who does not find tears in his eyes...In an earlier day, I believe he would have been burned at the stake. I have no doubt whatsoever that this book will be eagerly devoured by thousands of Catholics -- and an equal number of non-Catholics -- who are also searching as he is for a community of love..here is a man, a modern man, and most of all, a man of deep courage."

Dr. Carl Rodgers, Ph.D.
Founder Association of Humanistic Psychology
Author of "On Becoming A Person"

"This is combat religion. Kavanaugh is concerned about the trenches of life, not the tennis court. He jabs and brawls with the issues that too many clerics have blessed or ignored. Out of this, he emerges as an indoor/outdoor theologian who is practicing what he is preaching: the celebration of life as a gift of a loving God."

The Saturday Review of Literature

"Here is what millions have felt and what desperately needed to be said."

Psychology Today

"There is no question that the churches as well as the synagogues are in many ways outdated... Religion, like science, goes through a process of evolution...Kavanaugh has done much to further this revolution."

Issac Bashevis Singer

"Brilliantly worded, thoroughly readable...bears on several counts a striking resemblance to Martin Luther."

San Francisco Chronicle

"A personal cry of anguish that goes right to the heart of the troubles currently plaguing the Roman Catholic Church"

The New York Times Book Review

"Few will doubt the realism of this narrative."

Christopher Kauffman

"...It is strong medicine from a brave and honest priest."

Justus George Lawler

"Of the pleas for reform, A Modern Priest Looks At His Outdated Church will certainly rank among the most prominent...The author will most certainly suffer much for having spoken the truth."

Archbishop T. D. Roberts, S.J.

"The enthusiastic reaction of dissatisfied Catholics to the 'James Kavanaugh Phenomenon' suggests that we are indeed in the 1st stages of revolutionary convulsions...but at this point in the history of American Catholicism, only heroically imaginative and creative leadership will be able to avert a revolution."

Father Andrew Greeley

"If the Church is going to renew itself, then books like this have to be written, even though they may cause consternation and pain to those unable to agree. This book is important."

Thomas Merton

"One of the most soul-searching and progressive statements I have read in years. It will move millions of hearts and minds."

Rabbi Samuel M. Silver
National Chaplain, Jewish War Veterans

"James Kavanaugh is angry with his church and his anger is prophetic...A prophet never presents a balanced account, neither the prophets of the Old Testament not the Evangelists of the new. Is his book in conflict with the Church's teaching? My answer is 'NO!' He feels that the teaching authority of the last centuries go beyond the promises of Jesus...Kavanaugh presents a new outlook on sex, authority, divorce and remarriage, sin and holiness.!"

Fr. Gregory Baum OSA
Theological Expert at Vatican II