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{{Short description|American writer (1931–2015)}}

'''Robert Blair Kaiser''' (born [[1930]]) is an [[American]] author and journalist, best known for his writing on the [[Catholic Church]]. As a correspondent for ''[[Time Magazine]]'', he won the [[Overseas Press Club]] Award in [[1963]] for the "best magazine reporting of foreign affairs" for his reporting on the [[Vatican Council]]. Two of his ten published books deal with ''Vatican II: Pope, Council and World'', and ''The Politics of Sex and Religion''.

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'''Robert Blair Kaiser''' (January 11, 1931 – April 2, 2015) was an American author and journalist, best known for his writing on the [[Catholic Church]].<ref name=azstar>{{cite news|title=Catholic group will host religion journalist Kaiser|date=January 16, 2007 |first= Stephanie|last= Innes|url=http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-27046087.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140921192740/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-27046087.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=September 21, 2014|newspaper= [[The AZ Daily Star]]|via=[[HighBeam Research]]}}</ref>

==Biography==

He is currently finishing a book about the recent papal transition.

Kaiser trained as a [[Jesuit]] from 1949 to 1959. He left the order and his intention to be ordained to the priesthood, to become a journalist and to marry.<ref name=dallas>{{cite news|title=Religion in the media: a look at recent music, books and Web sites.|date=April 10, 2002 |last= Knight-Ridder|url=http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-84658859.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140921192633/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-84658859.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=September 21, 2014|newspaper=[[The Dallas Morning News]]|via=[[HighBeam Research]]}}</ref><ref name="NCR Obit">{{cite web|url=http://ncronline.org/blogs/ncr-today/robert-blair-kaiser-passes-84-holy-thursday|title=Robert Blair Kaiser dies at 84 on Holy Thursday|date=3 April 2015|newspaper=[[National Catholic Reporter]] | author=Fox, Thomas C. |accessdate=27 September 2018}}</ref>

As a correspondent for ''[[Time Magazine]]'', he won the [[Overseas Press Club|Overseas Press Club's]] Ed Cunningham Award in 1962 for the "best magazine reporting from abroad" for his reporting on the [[Second Vatican Council]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.opcofamerica.org/opc_awards/archive/awards_1962.php |archive-url=https://archive.today/20070619121925/http://www.opcofamerica.org/opc_awards/archive/awards_1962.php |url-status=dead |archive-date=June 19, 2007 |title=Overseas Press Club 1962 Award Winners |accessdate=December 5, 2005 }}</ref>

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From 1981 until 1983, Kaiser was the Chairman of the University of Nevada's Journalism Department in Reno. Rapid growth of the department, prior to becoming an independent school from the College of Arts and Science, happened under Kaiser's tenure.

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Four of his sixteen published books<ref name="NCR Obit"/> deal with Catholic Church reform. His books include ''A Church in Search of Itself: [[Benedict XVI]] and the Battle for the Future'' and ''Cardinal Mahony: A Novel''. A new version of his 1970 best seller, ''R.F.K. Must Die!'' was published in 2008, with a new sub-title, ''Chasing the Mystery of the Robert Kennedy Assassination''.

In a speech in Ireland on August 19, 2010, at the Humbert Summer School, entitled "Catholic Church Reform: No More Thrones", Kaiser called for [[Irish Catholics]] to boldly initiate an ecclesiastical revolution through which they would remove secretive hierarchy, take back their cathedrals, and elect their own bishops.<ref name=irish>{{cite news|title=Call to boycott Mass may be start of 'revolution in Catholic Church|date=August 20, 2010 |first=Patsy |last= McGarry|url=http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-25534438.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140921192716/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-25534438.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=September 21, 2014|newspaper= [[The Irish Times]]|via=[[HighBeam Research]]}}</ref> He was co-founder of takebackourchurch.org, a web community of American Catholics seeking "ownership and citizenship in the people's church envisioned at Vatican II", Catholic Church Reform International and on the Board of Directors of Catholic Church Reform International.<ref name="Catholic Church Reform">{{cite web | url=http://www.catholicchurchreform.com/consultors.html | title=Board of Consultors, Directors | publisher=Catholic Church Reform | accessdate=September 28, 2018}}</ref><ref name="NCR Obit"/>

==Selected works==

* [https://archive.org/download/popecouncilandwo013566mbp/popecouncilandwo013566mbp.pdf ''Pope, Council, and World: The Story of Vatican II''] (1963).

* [[iarchive:rfkmustdie00robe|''"R. F. K. Must Die!": A History of the Robert Kennedy Assassination and Its Aftermath'']]. New York: Dutton (1970). {{ISBN|0525191119}}.

* [[iarchive:politicsofsexrel0000kais|''The Politics of Sex and Religion: A Case History in the Development of Doctrine, 1962-1984'']]. Kansas City, MO: Leaven Press (1985). {{ISBN|0-934134-16-2}}.

* [[iarchive:encyclicalthatne0000kais|''The Encyclical That Never Was: The Story of the Commission on Population, Family and Birth, 1964-66'']]. London: Sheed & Ward (1987). {{ISBN|0-7220-3405-9}}.

* ''[[iarchive:clericalerrortru00kais|Clerical Error: A True Story]]''. New York: Continuum (2002). {{ISBN|0-8264-1384-6}}.

* [[iarchive:churchinsearchof0000kais x4m3|''A Church in Search of Itself: Benedict XVI and the Battle for the Future'']]. New York: Knopf (2006). {{ISBN|0-375-41064-3}}.

* ''[[iarchive:rfkmustdie00robe|"R.F.K. Must Die!": Chasing the Mystery of the Robert Kennedy Assassination]]''. (2008). {{ISBN|1-59020-124-8}}.

* ''[[iarchive:isbn 9780964664296|Cardinal Mahony: A Novel]]''. Phoenix, Ariz.: Humble Bee Press (2008). {{ISBN|978-0-9646642-9-6}}.

* [[iarchive:insidejesuitshow0000kais|''Inside the Jesuits: How Pope Francis is Changing the Church and the World'']]. Lanham, Maryland: [[Rowman & Littlefield]] (2014). {{ISBN|978-1-4422-2901-3}}.

* ''Whistle: [[Thomas P. Doyle|Tom Doyle]]'s Steadfast Witness For Victims of Clerical Sexual Abuse''. (2015) {{ISBN|978-1514327616}}.

== References ==

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== External links ==

* [https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2679990/ Robert Blair Kaiser] at [[IMDb]]

* [https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/192435605/robert-blair-kaiser/ Robert Blair Kaiser] at [[Find A Grave]]

* [http://archives.nd.edu/findaids/ead/xml/rbk.xml Robert Blair Kaiser Papers] at [[University of Notre Dame|University of Notre Dame, Indiana]]

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