James Kavanaugh (September 17, 1928 – 29 December 2009) was an American 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a doctorate at the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. His 1967 book, A Modern Priest Looks at His Outdated Church, became a national bestseller. References External links 2009 deaths 1928 births 20th-century American Roman Catholic priests American Christian writers 20th-century American poets Catholic University of America alumni 21st-century American Roman Catholic priests