American Catholic Revolution: How the Sixties Changed the Church Forever

by Mark S. Massa

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199734127
• ISBN13: 9780199734122
• Release Date: September 2010
• Publisher: Oxford Univ PR
• Length: 218 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.3"