Critical Mass: a Chronicle of the Catholic Church in the First Generation After Vatican II - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Critical Mass: a Chronicle of the Catholic Church in the First Generation After Vatican II write by Tom Reidy. This book was released on 2012-12-03. Critical Mass: a Chronicle of the Catholic Church in the First Generation After Vatican II available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Critical Mass is an in depth look at what happened in the Catholic Church during the first generation after the Second Vatican Council, a period corresponding to the pontificates of Paul VI through John Paul II. The book starts with a close look at some key conciliar documents. Other chapters study how Tradition was systematically dismantled; the roles of the clergy and laity in the post-Vatican II Church; the mindsets of liberal, traditional, and conservative Catholics; how the Church became a turgid bureaucracy all the way down to the parish level; the dumbing down of religious education; the Church's post-Vatican II approach to social justice issues; the influence of Radical Feminism on the Church. The book concludes with an interesting - even radical - prognosis for the future.
Meditations of an Exile
Meditations of an Exile - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Meditations of an Exile write by Tom Reidy. This book was released on 2012-12-03. Meditations of an Exile available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Meditations of an Exile is a collection of essays on a wide variety of unique religious topics, some of which have rarely been covered anywhere else. These include: why the Roman Empire and slavery are not condemned in Scripture; seeming conflict between the two natures of Christ; intriguing parallels between the history of Biblical Israel that reflect in reverse the past, present, and possible future of Christianity; why the modern state of Israel is not the Israel foretold in Biblical prophecy; the Eternal Design; why the Church tolerates and even supports pro-abortion politicians; why evangelization will not work in the West; who were the "giants" so often referred to in the Old Testament; is it evident from Scripture that intelligent life does not exist beyond earth? Meditations concludes with a commentary on the passion and death of Jesus that analyzes why the Jewish authorities arrested Jesus in the way they did and why the Romans never considered Jesus a political threat even after Palm Sunday.
Certifiably Insane
Certifiably Insane - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Certifiably Insane write by TOM REIDY. This book was released on 2015-10-20. Certifiably Insane available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book identifies and analyzes twenty cultural "choke points" that have each contributed to cultural decline in America. The book defines how these choke points have contributed to the destruction of our foundational institutions. We will study these foundational institutions and why they are essential to a healthy national culture. When they collapse, so does the culture. Based upon this analysis we can assign the exact year cultural disintegration began in America.
The Pope, the Council, and the Mass
The Pope, the Council, and the Mass - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Pope, the Council, and the Mass write by James Likoudis. This book was released on 2006. The Pope, the Council, and the Mass available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Pope, the Council, and the Mass, the definitive response to ?Traditionalist? Catholics when first published in 1981, has been updated to include the developments from the time of the first publication up to, and including, the beginning of the pontificate of Pope Benedict XVI. In addressing the concerns raised by the followers of the late Archbishop Lefebvre and other ?Traditionalists?, the authors give a truly Catholic understanding of Tradition, the Second Vatican Council and its implementation, and the nature of true liturgical reform. This book not only provides the reader with a sound perspective on the past, it also offers insight into the present state of the Church and the outlook for the future. History, canon law, ecclesiastical and papal documents, and Scripture are mined in this solid apologetic for a faith that is One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic.
The Catholic Revolution
The Catholic Revolution - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Catholic Revolution write by Andrew Greeley. This book was released on 2004-03-10. The Catholic Revolution available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. How, a mere generation after Vatican Council II initiated the biggest reform since the Reformation, can the Catholic Church be in such deep trouble? The question resonates through this new book by Andrew Greeley, the most recognized, respected, and influential commentator on American Catholic life. A timely and much-needed review of forty years of Church history, The Catholic Revolution offers a genuinely new interpretation of the complex and radical shift in American Catholic attitudes since the second Vatican Council (1962-1965). Drawing on a wealth of data collected over the last thirty years, Greeley points to a rift between the higher and lower orders in the Church that began in the wake of Vatican Council II—when bishops, euphoric in their (temporary) freedom from the obstructions of the Roman Curia, introduced modest changes that nonetheless proved too much for still-rigid structures of Catholicism: the "new wine" burst the "old wineskins." As the Church leadership tried to reimpose the old order, clergy and the laity, newly persuaded that "unchangeable" Catholicism could in fact change, began to make their own reforms, sweeping away the old "rules" that no longer made sense. The revolution that Greeley describes brought about changes that continue to reverberate—in a chasm between leadership and laity, and in a whole generation of Catholics who have become Catholic on their own terms. Coming at a time of crisis and doubt for the Catholic Church, this richly detailed, deeply thoughtful analysis brings light and clarity to the years of turmoil that have shaken the foundations, if not the faith, of American Catholics.
