The American Catholic Revolution: How the Sixties Changed the Church Forever

ISBN-13: 9780199734122 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 224 str.

Sj Mark S. Massa

Opis

In the 1960s, the Second Vatican Council enacted the most sweeping changes the Catholic Church had seen in centuries. In readable and compelling prose, Mark S. Massa tells the story of the cultural war these changes ignited in the United States - a war that is still being waged today.

Suddenly, one Sunday, the mass as the faithful had always known it was different, and so was the Church they had believed was timeless and unchanging. Once the Church opened the door to change, Massa argues, it could not be closed again. Skirmishes broke out over the proper way to worship. Soon, Catholics were bitterly divided over birth control, abortion, celibacy, female priests, and the authority of the Church itself.

As he narrates these turbulent events, Massa takes us beyond stereotypes of liberals and conservatives, offering new insights into the last fifty years of American Catholicism.

Recenzje

Massa goes in-depth on the aftermath of Vatican II in this country. This is absolutely essential reading if you want to understand the turmoil and turbulence that occurred in the American Church in the late 1960s.

O autorze

Mark S. Massa, SJ, is Karl Rahner Professor of Theology and Director of the Curran Center for American Catholic Studies, at Fordham University, as well as the author of Anti-Catholicism in America and other books.