Paul Lakeland

Paul Lakeland teaches at Fairfield University in Connecticut, mostly in the intersection of religion with politics and social theory, on religion and literature, and on current issues in the American Catholic Church. A native of England and a former Jesuit, he writes and reviews fiction regularly for Commonweal, a New York-based liberal Catholic journal of opinion, and is frequently a featured speaker in Catholic reform movement venues around the country. He is the author of seven books including Postmodernity: Christian Identity in a Fragmented Age, The Liberation of the Laity: In Search of an Accountable Church, which received the 2004 U.S. Catholic Press Association Award for the best book in theology, and, most recently, Catholicism at the Crossroads: How the Laity Can Save the Church.