Michael Davies (Catholic writer)
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Michael Treharne Davies 13 March 1936 Yeovil, Somerset, England, United Kingdom |
| Died | 25 September 2004 (aged 68) United Kingdom |
| Occupation | Writer, author |
Michael Treharne Davies (13 March 1936 – 25 September 2004) was a British teacher and traditionalist Catholic writer of many books about the Catholic Church following the Second Vatican Council. From 1992 to 2004 he was the president of the international Traditionalist Catholic organisation Foederatio Internationalis Una Voce and was responsible for the unification of Una Voce America.
Davies was born to Cyril and Annie (née Garnworthy) Davies. His father, a Welshman, was a Baptist, and his mother, who was English, was an Anglican. Davies was brought up in Yeovil, Somerset, but proud of his Welsh descent. He served as a regular soldier in the Somerset Light Infantry during the Malayan Emergency, the Suez Crisis, and the EOKA campaign in Cyprus.
Davies was a Baptist who converted to Catholicism while still a student in the 1950s. While initially he was a supporter of the Second Vatican Council, he became critical of the liturgical changes that followed in its wake, which he argued were a result of distortions and misreadings of the Second Vatican Council's mandates for liturgical reform. He later supported the French Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre, founder of the Society of St. Pius X, even though he opposed the illicit consecration of the four bishops in 1988 against the wishes of Pope John Paul II, he continued supporting him.
William D. Dinges, Professor of Religion and Culture at The Catholic University of America, described Davies as "[i]nternationally, one of the most prolific traditionalist apologists".
Davies was a critic of the alleged apparitions at Medjugorje, which he believed to be false.
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