Richard McBrien

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Richard Peter McBrien (born 1936) is the Crowley-O'Brien professor of Theology at the University of Notre Dame. He is a priest of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Hartford. He is the author of several books and articles discussing Catholicism. His stated scholarly interests are ecclesiology, the relationship between religion and politics, and the theological, doctrinal and spiritual facets of the Catholic church. He has written a syndicated theological column for the Catholic press. He also served as president of the Catholic Theological Society of America from 1974-1975. He was the awarded the John Courtney Murray Award for outstanding and distinguished accomplishments in theology.

He has been a controversial figure in the American Church, and is often considered to be a dissenter from Church teachings. His two volume work, Catholicism, has been a source of this controversy. Fr. McBrien hails from a generation of theologians with waning influence in the recent years likely due to the movement of younger generations being drawn to the more conservative theology re-emerging out of the pontificate of John Paul II and continued by Benedict XVI ^{[citation needed]}

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• The Pocket Guide to the Popes (HarperSanFrancisco, 2006, ISBN 0061137731)
• The Pocket Guide to the Saints (HarperSanFrancisco, 2006, ISBN 006113774X)
• Lives of the Saints: From Mary and St. Francis of Assisi to John XXIII and Mother Teresa (HarperSanFrancisco, 2006, ISBN 0061232831)
• 101 Questions & Answers on the Church (Paulist Press, 2003, ISBN 0809142503)
• Lives of the Popes: The Pontiffs from Saint Peter to John Paul II (HarperSanFrancisco, 2000 (revised in 2006), ISBN 0060653043)
• Responses to 101 Questions on the Church (Paulist Press, 1996, ISBN 0809136384)
• The HarperCollins Encyclopedia of Catholicism (HarperSanFrancisco, 1995, ISBN 0060653388)
• Inside Catholicism (Signs of the Sacred) (HarperCollins, 1995, ISBN 0006490522)
• How To Give Up Sex (co-authored with Roger Planer and John Riley: Hodder & Stoughton, 1989, ISBN 045049473X)
• Ministry: A Theological, Pastoral Handbook (HarperSanFrancisco, 1988, ISBN 0060653248)
• Caesar's Coin: Religion and Politics in America (MacMillan, 1987, ISBN 0029197201)
• In Search of God (Dimension Books, 1977, ISBN 087193082X)
• The Remaking of the Church: An Agenda for Reform (Harper & Row, 1973, ISBN 0060653272)
• For the Inquiring Catholic: Questions and Answers for the 1970's (Dimension Books, 1973)
• Who is a Catholic? (Dimension Books, 1971)
• Church: The Continuing Quest (Paulist Press, 1970, ISBN 0809115255)