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Church history: twenty centuries of Catholic Christianity

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The author pulls no punches. For example: "Over the years, it has become evident that 'Modernism' ...never existed outside of the minds of Pius X and his curial advisors. ...Modernism was a figment of the conservative imagination." (p. 364) Or mull over the following: "It is arguable that Humanae Vitae [the 1968 papal encyclical subtitled "On the Regulation of Birth"] did more to undermine the foundations of papal authority than any event in the entire history of the church, and the shadow of this fiasco hung over the final ten years of [Paul VI's] pontificate." (p. 393) (The late sociologist Fr. Andrew Greeley also concluded--in The Catholic Myth: The Behavior and Beliefs of American Catholics--that the encyclical was "the occasion for massive apostasy and for notable decline in religious devotion and belief.")

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Call Number

282.09 DWY c

Publisher

New York : Paulist Press., 1985

Collation

x,427p.; 23 cm.

Language

English

ISBN/ISSN

0-8091-2686-9

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282.09

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Subject(s)

ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH - HISTORY

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