Vita and Publications, John
Cavanaugh-O’Keefe
6510 Damascus Rd, Laytonsville, MD
20882 – 301-922-4284; cavanaughokeefe@gmail.com
Personal: age 73, married to Betsy (Betsy
Cavanaugh married John O’Keefe), six kids, 15 grandchildren
Education: B.A. in English, Harvard
University; M.A. in Education, Trinity College, Hartford CT
Pro-life
work has included:
·
laying
the foundations of the rescue movement in America and on five continents
·
helping
to prevent the construction of 400 abortion clinics in Bangladesh
·
promoting
a consistent ethic of life (before Cardinal Bernardin)
·
promoting
a consistent ethic of hospitality
·
exposing
the eugenic roots of abortion
·
working
with Richard Doerflinger at USCCB to oppose human cloning
·
organizing
pro-life/pro-choice dialogue, aimed at understanding and civility
Published articles in:
·
National
Right to Life News
·
A.L.L.
About Issues
·
HLI
Reports
·
Homiletic
and Pastoral Review
·
America
·
Notre
Dame Journal of Law, Ethics, and Public Policy
·
Women’s
Studies Encyclopedia
Quoted in:
·
New
York Times and New
York Times Magazine
·
New
Yorker
·
Los
Angeles Times
·
Wrath
of Angels, James Risen
and Judy Thomas: see chapter 3, entitled “Father of Rescue: John O’Keefe”
Publications include:
Gospel of Life: A Study Guide (American Life League, 1976)
Emmanuel, Solidarity: God’s Act,
Our Response
(2001)
The Roots of Racism and Abortion:
An Exploration of Eugenics (2001)
McGivney’s Guests – a work in progress, including …
·
Strangers:
21 Claims in the Old Testament
(2015) – a study of hospitality in the OT
·
The
Persistent Other (2016)
– a study of hospitality in the NT
·
The
Two Stout Monks Myth
(2020) – a study of hospitality in Fathers and Scholastics up to Thomas Aquinas
·
Knocking
at Haven’s Door (2019)
– shifting paradigms of hospitality in Scripture and Tradition
·
Restoring
the Works of Mercy
(2019) – separating Matthew 25 from the traditional list (following Aquinas)
·
(studies
of American saints and hospitality then magisterial teaching about hospitality
are not complete)
The Pope or the Pol: Whose Vision
Shapes Us? (2023) –
contrasting Ecclesia in America with Death of the West
Rebuilding Pro-Life Nonviolence
(2024) – co-author
with Elise Ketch – argues for a new pro-life movement guided by the teaching of
St. John Paul II, grounded firmly in Gandhian nonviolence
Publications supported by Cardinal Wilton Gregory, Abbot
James Wiseman, Professor Peter Kreeft