Joseph McCabe critic of Catholicism

Joseph McCabe (1867-1955) was one of the most prolific authors of all time. He was brought up as a Roman Catholic, worked on Latin documents, and made himself very well-informed about Christianity, but turned against it. But he was extremely naive about Jews; bear this in mind.

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Here's the full A Rationalist Encyclopaedia (about 1.3 MBytes; Word format; includes notes on some of its limits)

McCabe, Joseph Martin (b. 1867), writer

J. McCabe, Rationalists Encyclopaedia

. He became a monk of the Franciscan Order and, as "Father Antony," was professor of philosophy and ecclesiastical history for five years. He studied philosophy and Semitic languages at Louvain University, but the rules of his Order forbade him to take a degree. He left the Church in 1896 and wrote two books for the Rationalist Press in that year; and he was one of the original Directors of the R.P.A. (1899). He has written about 200 books and thirty translations, delivered about 2,000 lectures (including seven lecture tours in Australasia, the United States, and Canada), and held a score of public debates. He is an Atheist and Materialist. For books see Who's Who?

There are several autobiographies available, such as Eighty Years a Rebel, in the blue-paperback stapled format of Haldemann-Julius, but these are in copyright, presumably until 2025, and not easy to download.
    I've now found a copy of Joseph McCabe's Eighty Years a Rebel, apparently the genuine 1947 E. Haldeman-Julius edition, in portable document format. Page 35 is missing; whether this is a deliberate removal, or an error, I don't know. The text is numbered to page 90, and there are a few pages of b/w photographs. It has no index, but of course can be scanned.  

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