Joseph McCabe Quotes


I AM what is called a Feminist. Thirty years ago I left a monastery and began a sane human existence. Within two or three years, I find, I was defending the rights of women.


Citations

McCabe, Joseph. The Story of Religious Controversy. The Stratford Company, 1929.

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Joseph McCabe
Joseph McCabe
  • Born: November 12, 1867
  • Died: January 10, 1955
  • Nationality: English
  • Profession: Writer, Lecturer, Priest

Joseph Martin McCabe was an English writer and speaker on freethought, after having been a Roman Catholic priest earlier in his life. He was "one of the great mouthpieces of freethought in England". Becoming a critic of the Catholic Church, McCabe joined groups such as the Rationalist Association and the National Secular Society. He criticised Christianity from a rationalist perspective, but also was involved in the South Place Ethical Society which grew out of dissenting Protestantism and was a precursor of modern secular humanism.