James Likoudis: The Origins of the Byzantine Schism (Extended)

James Likoudis (December 11, 1928) is an American Catholic theologian, author and former lecturer in religious studies.[2]

Career
In 1977 Likoudis's translation of Renée Casin's St. Thomas Aquinas: Orthodoxy, and Neo-Modernism in the Church from French to English was published.[3] He has also authored several books dealing with sex education, the Eastern Orthodox Church and its teachings, liturgical issues and controversies following the Second Vatican Council, and articles and commentary about prominent Catholics. He is the president emeritus of the Catholic lay organization Catholics United for the Faith (CUF) and the founder of Credo of Buffalo.

While working with CUF, Likoudis led the charge to remove ecclesiastical approval from the theologically problematic "Christ Among Us" Catechism, a campaign that was eventually heard by the Vatican's CDF head, Cardinal Ratzinger (later Pope Benedict XVI), which took action to remove the Imprimatur and Nihil Obstat before eventually requesting that Paulist Press cease further production and sales of the book. Similarly, Likoudis played a prominent role in bringing to the Vatican's awareness the dissent and theological error being taught at CUA by Fr. Charles Curran. After many years and many more reports, Fr. Curran was removed from his teaching position by the Church hierarchy.

Mr. Likoudis is also the former president of Morality in Media, an organization now known as The National Center on Sexual Exploitation - an organization that campaigns against pornography, sex education and sex trafficking. The organization describes its goal as "exposing the links between all forms of sexual exploitation". In its beginnings, the organization was primarily Catholic. He is also the former moderator of the New York TV series "Sex and Morality."