Robert Blair Kaiser: 7 books
A Church in Search of Itself
Benedict XVI and the Battle for the Future
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
A deeply informed look at the intensifying struggle over the future of the Catholic Church.
Robert Blair Kaiser examines the most important and divisive issues confronting the Church: the sex abuse scandal, a shortage of priests due to the insistence upon celibacy, the ban on contraception,...
"R.F.K. Must Die!"
Chasing the Mystery of the Robert Kennedy Assassination
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2008
The definitive text on the mystery of R.F.K.’s assassination by a reporter who “got inside this story . . . with his impressive grasp of all the loose ends” (Kirkus Reviews).
On the night of June 4, 1968, Sirhan Sirhan shot and killed Sen. Robert F. Kennedy in a steamy pantry of the Los...
Inside the Jesuits
How Pope Francis Is Changing the Church and the World
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2014
Pope Francis, the first Jesuit pope, has captured our attention by stepping away from the papal throne, unafraid to give impromptu interviews, decentralize church governance, or explore new horizons for the greater good of the people of God. His actions and words suggest that he is here not to dominate...
by Robert Blair Kaiser
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2011
Reporter Don Bolles rode into town and took dead aim at the Mafia. But the Phoenix establishment, giddy in its new prosperity, didn't want to listen to him, and, in the end, applauded and rewarded the men who covered up for his killers. A dark tale out of sun-drenched Arizona.
by Robert Blair Kaiser
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2012
How the people of God, not the pope, changed the Catholic Church's teaching on birth control. A history of the papal birth control commission of the 1960s and its aftermath narrated by a man who was there, Time magazine's correspondent at Vatican II.
by Robert Blair Kaiser
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2012
Headstrong Jessica Burns inherits the sorry, ever-losing New York Jets and vows (against the advice of her father, a winning high school coach in Colorado) to bring more fun and less violence to the NFL. She does this despite the opposition of the other owners, and the disbelief of most of the media,...
by Robert Blair Kaiser
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2009
Three liberation theologians kidnap Los Angeles Cardinal Roger Mahony, take him off in his own helicopter and put him on trial for his crimes before an international television audience. Convicted and sentenced to become a Christian, he undergoes a conversion and works to make a clerical Church into...