John L. McKenzie

Father John L. McKenzie was a prominent Roman Catholic historian and biblical scholar, was considered the dean of Catholic biblical scholars during the 1960s when the Vatican began encouraging more Scripture studies. In 1966 he was the first Catholic priest to be elected president of the large Society of Biblical Literature. Near the end of the Vietnam War, McKenzie resigned from the Jesuit order and became a diocesan priest because he felt the Jesuits were not taking a strong stand …