George Anthony Kelly
b. 1916 – d. 2004 · 26 books
Biography
George Anthony Kelly was born in New York. In 1942 he was ordained as a Catholic priest. He then went to Catholic University in Washington, D.C., and went on to receive a Ph.D. in social science. In 1945 he returned to New York City to work in a parish. He began to write a labor column for The Catholic News. In 1955, he was appointed Family Life director for his the archdiocese. In 1958 he published his most popular book, Catholic Marriage Manual, and followed it in 1960 with the Catholic Youth's Guide to Life and Love. In 1966, he was appointed Secretary of Education for the Catholic schools in the Archdiocese of New York and the Diocese of Brooklyn, which together were the third-largest education system in the United States. In 1977, he co-founded the Fellowship of Catholic Scholars. In 2003 he was invited to take a new position at St. John's University as chair in contemporary Catholic problems.
Books by George Anthony Kelly
The second spring of the Church in America
The battle for the American church revisited
A pastor's challenge
Keeping the church Catholic with John Paul II
Inside my Father's house
The church's problem with Bible scholars
The New Biblical Theorists
Catholic ministries in our time
The battle for the American church
The Sacrament of the Eucharist in our time
An uncertain church
An uncertain church
The Catholic Church and the American poor
Who should run the Catholic Church?
The political struggle of active homosexuals to gain social acceptance
The sacrament of penance and r
The sacrament of penance and reconciliation
Why should the Catholic univer
Why should the Catholic university survive?
The parish, as seen from the C
The parish, as seen from the Church of St. John the Evangelist, New York City, 1840-1973
Catholics and the practice of
Catholics and the practice of the faith, 1967 and 1971
Government aid to nonpublic schools: yes or no?
The Fleischmann Commission
The Fleischmann Commission
The Christian role in today's society
your child and sex
Dating for young Catholics
The Catholics Youth's Guide to Life and Love
Primer on the Taft-Hartley law
Primer on the Taft-Hartley law
Catholics and the practice of
Catholics and the practice of faith