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E. Michael Jones | |
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 Jones in January 2022 | |
| Born | 1948 (age 75–76) |
| Nationality | American |
| Education | St. Joseph's College (bachelor's)Temple University (M.A., Ph.D.) |
| Occupation | Author |
| Children | 5[1]: 48 |
| Religion | Roman Catholic |
E. Michael Jones (born 1948) is an American traditionalist Catholic author.
Jones was born to Catholic parents and grew up in a blue-collar Philadelphia neighborhood. He attended the local Saint Joseph's College between 1966 and 1970, during which time he became a lapsed Catholic. After spending time as an English teacher in Germany, and returning to the Catholic faith, Jones returned to the United States and earned a Ph.D. in English Literature at Temple University. He taught at Saint Mary's College in Indiana after earning his Ph.D.; his intense anti-abortion writings published in local newspapers evoked the ire of his fellow English professors, and the Catholic women's college fired him after one year.
After his dismissal from Saint Mary's, Jones began a career as a writer and a publisher, founding Fidelity, a traditionalist Catholic journal that opposed Modernism in the Catholic Church. He became a prolific writer, publishing fifteen books alongside writing the majority of the content in the Fidelity journal, and continues today in his second magazine, Culture Wars. His journal writings have decried liberal currents in the Catholic Church—Jones has been intensely critical of the liberalization of the University of Notre Dame—and have expressed deep skepticism regarding the veracity of Our Lady of Medjugorje.
Several U.S.-based organizations, including the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights, the Southern Poverty Law Center, and the Anti-Defamation League, have criticized Jones for making antisemitic statements in his writings and public speeches. Polish scholar Agnieszka Graff has written that Jones garners respect in Poland as an author and lecturer, and that his writings are held in high regard in the Eastern European nation.