Michael W. Higgins - Publications

Publications

Higgins is the author or editor of over a dozen books, including:

• Suffer the Children Unto Me: An Open Inquiry into the Clerical Sex Abuse Scandal, co-authored with Peter Kavanagh, Ottawa: Novalis Publishing, 2010.
• Stalking the Holy: In Pursuit of Saint-Making, Toronto: House of Anansi, 2006.
• Power and Peril: The Catholic Church at the Crossroads, co-authored with Douglas R. Letson, Toronto: HarperCollins. 2002.
• Soundings: Conversations About Catholicism, co-authored with Douglas R. Letson, Ottawa: Novalis, 2000.
• The Muted Voice: Religion and the Media, Ottawa: Novalis, 2000.
• Heretic Blood: An Audiobiography of Thomas Merton, (CBC Audio Cassettes) 1999.
• Heretic Blood: The Spiritual Geography of Thomas Merton, Toronto: Stoddart, September, 1998. .
• The Jesuit Mystique, co-authored with Douglas R. Letson. Toronto: Macmillan, 1995; London: HarperCollins, 1995; Chicago: Loyola University Press, 1995.
• Catholic Education—Transforming Our World: A Canadian Perspective, co-edited with Trafford, McGowan and Murphy, Ottawa: Novalis, 1991.
• My Father's Business: a biography of G. Emmett Cardinal Carter, co-authored with Douglas R. Letson. Toronto: Macmillan, 1990.
• "How Can We Sorrow"?--Essays on the Resurrection, edited by Michael W. Higgins, University of St. Jerome's College Press, Waterloo, 1989.
• Women and the Church: A Sourcebook, co-edited with Douglas R. Letson. Toronto: Griffin House, 1986.
• Portraits of Canadian Catholicism, co-authored with Douglas R. Letson, Toronto: Griffin House, 1986.
• Thomas Merton: Pilgrim in Process, co-authored/edited with Donald Grayston. Toronto: Griffin House, 1983.

Higgins has also published over 60 articles, essays, film reviews and book reviews (general and academic). He is credited with over 75 published interviews, documentaries, dramas, and radio and television commentaries (including appearances on CTV's Canada AM, CBC Newsworld, CBC Radio's Ideas and a CBS Washington Special. Higgins also provided the ethical and humanistic perspective on the Discovery Channel's @discovery.ca twice per month, along with Dr. Pauline Mazumdar, Dr. Kee Dewdney, Rob Sawyer and Jay Ingram.