A Partisan Church: American Catholicism and the Rise of Neoconservative Catholics

by Todd Scribner

In the wake of Vatican II and the political and social upheavals of the 1960s, disruption and disagreement rent the Catholic Church in America. Since then a diversity of opinions on a variety of political and religious questions found expression in the church, leading to a fragmented understanding of Catholic identity. Liberal, conservative, neoconservative and traditionalist Catholics competed to define what constituted an authentic Catholic worldview,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813227291
• ISBN13: 9780813227290
• Release Date: March 2015
• Publisher: Catholic University of America Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.4"