Catholic Modern: The Challenge of Totalitarianism and the Remaking of the Church

by James Chappel

Book Overview

In 1900 the Catholic Church stood staunchly against human rights, religious freedom, and the secular state. According to the Catholic view, modern concepts like these, unleashed by the French Revolution, had been a disaster. Yet by the 1960s, those positions were reversed. How did this happen? Why, and when, did the world's largest religious organization become modern?

James Chappel finds an answer in the shattering experiences of the 1930s...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674972104
• ISBN13: 9780674972100
• Release Date: February 2018
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.3" x 9.4"