James Likoudis
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James Likoudis is a Catholic author and apologist.
He is a former College Instructor in History and Government with twenty years of teaching experience in public and private education. A nationally known writer and lecturer on Catechetics, Sex Education and Liturgy, he has published many articles on these and other subjects of interest to the Catholic laity. He was a co-founder and leader of "Credo of Buffalo, a Chapter of Catholics United for the Faith (CUF)", a lay Catholic organization formed to promote the Truths and Doctrines of the Church. In 1977 he translated from the French Renee Casin's "St. Thomas Aquinas, Orthodoxy, and Neo-Modernism in the Church", and is the author of several books dealing with Sex Education and the ecclesiology of the Eastern Orthodox church. Author of many articles on Liturgy problems following the current reforms of the Second Vatican Council, he co-authored "The Pope, the Council and the Mass" (Christopher Publishing House) which has been hailed as an outstanding defense of Pope Paul VI's "Ordo Missae" and the genuine liturgical reforms envisaged by the Second Vatican Council. L'Osservatore Romano noted: "This book has been sorely needed for well over a decade" (11/2/81).
A convert to the Catholic Church in 1952, Mr. Likoudis has since devoted a great deal of his efforts to foster the reunion of the Eastern Orthodox churches with the Catholic Church. His book "Ending the Byzantine Greek Schism" (2nd revised edition, 1992) dealing with historical and theological issues raised by Eastern Orthodoxy, witnesses to the author's longstanding preoccupation with ecumenism and his desire for the full reconciliation of the separated Byzantine Greco-Slav church with the Chair of Peter.
His latest work is: "The Divine Primacy of the Bishop of Rome and Modern Eastern Orthodoxy: Letters to a Greek Orthodox on the Unity of the Church" which is a powerful refutation of objections to the Papacy made by Protestants and Eastern Orthodox and an impressive demonstration of the evidence for the universal jurisdiction of the Pope over the entire Church, both East and West during the first Millennium of the Church's history. In his Essay "To be Truly Orthodox is to be in Communion with Peter's See" (published in "Spiritual Journeys: Twenty-seven personal experiences" and edited by Robert Baram, St. Paul Books & Media, 1988), James Likoudis gives an account of his personal journey to the Catholic Church.
Mr. Likoudis has lectured extensively in the U.S., Canada, Australia, New Zealand and England to parents groups, CUF Chapters, and other Catholic Associations on many issues affecting education, family life, and the role of the laity in the Church.
James Likoudis is the 2002 recipient of the - BLESSED FREDERICK OZANAM AWARD for CATHOLIC SOCIAL ACTION - presented at the October 18, 2002 Annual Meeting of the Society for Catholic Social Scientists.
