Michael Davies (Catholic writer)

Michael Davies (March 13 1936 - September 25 2004) was a British teacher, and traditionalist Catholic writer of many books about the Catholic Church following the Second Vatican Council.

He was brought up in Somerset, although of Welsh descent of which he was said to be very proud. He served as a regular soldier in the Somerset Light Infantry during the Malayan emergency, the Suez Crisis, and the EOKA campaign in Cyprus.

He then taught in Catholic schools for thirty years until retiring in 1992 to take up writing full time. Initially, he supported the French Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre, founder of the Society of St. Pius X, but was critical of the latter's decision to consecrate four bishops in 1988 against the wish of Pope John Paul II.

Until his death he was head of the international Traditional Catholic organisation Una Voce. Davies was also a critic of the alleged apparitions at Medjugorje, which he believed to be false.

Books by Michael Davies

• Cranmer's Godly Order — 372pp, Roman Catholic Books
• Pope John's Council — 352pp, Angelus Press
• Pope Paul's New Mass — 700pp, Angelus Press
• The Order of Melchisedech — 255pp, Roman Catholic Books (out of print)
• Apologia Pro Marcel Lefebvre, vol. I — 476pp, Angelus Press
• Apologia Pro Marcel Lefebvre, vol. II — 393pp, Angelus Press
• Apologia Pro Marcel Lefebvre, vol. III — 474pp, Angelus Press
• Partisans of Error (on Modernism) — 109pp, Neumann Press
• Newman Against the Liberals — 400pp, Roman Catholic Books (out of print)
• A Fireside Chat with Malcolm Muggeridge — 92pp, Roman Catholic Books
• The Second Vatican Council and Religious Liberty — 326pp, Neumann Press

• Archbishop Lefebvre, The Truth
• The New Mass
• The Goldfish Bowl: The Church since Vatican II
• Archbishop Lefebvre and Religious Liberty
• Proclaiming Justice and Peace — One Hundred Years Of Catholic Social Teaching
• The Catholic Sanctuary and the Second Vatican Council
• The Wisdom of Adrian Fortescue

External links

• Obituary from The Times.
• Obituary by the Latin Mass Society.
• Michael Davies's Medjugorje site
• Tribute from The Remnant newspaper.