James Kavanaugh
James Kavanaugh was an American Catholic priest, author, and poet best remembered for his iconoclastic 1967 book A Modern Priest Looks at His Outdated Church, which became a national bestseller. He left the priesthood within a few months of the book's publication.
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.