Kenneth D. Whitehead is a retired U.S. Assistant Secretary of Education for
Postsecondary Education appointed by President Ronald Reagan in 1988.
Earlier he was a career diplomat who served in Rome and the Middle East and as
the chief of the Arabic Service of the Voice of America. Later for eight years he
was executive vice president of Catholics United for the Faith. He now works as a
writer, editor, and translator in Falls Church, Virginia.  He is the author of dozens
of articles on political, moral, social, and theological issues; and of a number of
books, including, especially, One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic: The Early
Church Was the Catholic Church (Ignatius Press, 2000). His latest books include:
The New Ecumenism: How the Catholic Church after Vatican II Took Over the
Leadership of the World Ecumenical Movement (Alba House/St. Paul’s, 2009) ;
Mass Misunderstandings: The Mixed Legacy of the Vatican II Liturgical Reforms
(St. Augustine’s Press, 2009); and The Renewed Church: The Second Vatican
Council’s Enduring Teaching about the Church (Sapientia Press, 2009).

   A revised, updated edition of the book he co-authored with James Likoudis in
1981, The Pope, the Council, and the Mass, was published by Emmaus Road
Publishing in 2006. He is also the co-author of Flawed Expectations: The
Reception of the Catechism of the Catholic Church (Ignatius Press, 1996), co-
authored with the late Msgr. Michael J. Wrenn). He is the translator of more than
twenty books from French, German, or Italian, and has recently translated
Roman Curia Archbishop Agostino Marchetto’s Il Concilio Ecumenico Vaticano II,
which is published by the University of Scranton Press. He is also the editor of a
number of volumes, including, most recently, After 40 Years: Vatican Council II’s
Diverse Legacy (St. Augustine's Press, 2007); and The Idea of the Catholic
University (Fellowship of Catholic Scholars, 2009).

   Mr. Whitehead is listed in the current Who’s Who in America.

   He serves or has served on a number of Boards of Directors, including the
Boards of the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights, the Fellowship of
Catholic  Scholars, and The Review of Metaphysics. He has also been a member
of the Board of Editors of The Political Science Reviewer, and currently he serves
on the Advisory Council of the new University of Sacramento. He is the 1998
recipient of the Cardinal Wright Award of the Fellowship of Catholic Scholars; the
2004 recipient of the Frederick Ozanam Award of the Society of Catholic Social
Scientists; the 2006 Humanitarian Award of the American Maritain Association;
and, with his wife, the 1993 Faith and Family Award from Women for Faith and
Family.

   Educated at the University of Utah and the University of Paris, Mr. Whitehead
holds an honorary doctorate in Christian letters from the Franciscan University of
Steubenville in Ohio. He is married to the former Margaret O'Donohue.

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