WOW! WOW! WOW! A MUST READ! IF YOU WANT A GREAT HISTORY OF LIBERAL HETERODOXY IN THE CHURCH OF THE USA BEGINNING IN 1965, ALTHOUGH THE FOCUS ON THE ARCHDIOCESE OF BALTIMORE, THIS IS THE BOOK FOR YOU!

 I just ordered the Kindle version of “A liberal Revolution: The implementation of Vatican II in the Archdiocese of Baltimore”.

This is of particular interest to me because I went to seminary in 1976 at St. Mary’s in Baltimore on the heals of this revolution as it was being implemented.

This book is an invaluable history of Vatican II in Baltimore especially beginning in 1965.

It is a bit nostalgic for me and people my age. It is eye-opening for those who did not live through it and think the Church only began with Pope Francis and the conservatives he alienated who prior to Pope Francis were the most ultra-montane Catholics to be found in the face of the revolutionaries this book describes.

Michael Lewis of “Where Peter is”, aka, “Where Pope Francis Was” would do well to read this book to get educated on the immediate post-Vatican II period in this country and how liberals were the first to redicule and reject papal teachings and for the most part, Vatican II itself when properly understood and implemented according to the hermeneutic of continuity not rupture.

Order this book today! A fascinating read for every Catholic in every diocese in the USA!

A Liberal

Revolution: The Implementation of Vatican II in the Archdiocese of Baltimore 

by  Hanael Bianchi  (Author)  Format: Kindle Edition

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Although the Second Vatican Council has generated a large scholarly corpus, A Liberal Revolution is the first history to be written of a diocese in the years immediately following it. Using the important see of Baltimore as a case study, and drawing exclusively on primary sources such as newspaper accounts and archival materials, Hanael Bianchi reconstructs how the Council was implemented and experienced on the local level. The claim that the Church "embraced the modern world" after Vatican II is well known; this book sharpens it by focusing specifically on liberalism as the framework through which implementation took place. The study begins by tracing the dismantling of inherited traditions, then turns to the rise of individualism within Catholic life and governance, before arriving at its most original contribution: an analysis of the emergence of a dense church bureaucracy that embodied and enforced a liberal worldview. Although the story told in these pages is a tragedy, A Liberal Revolution is no polemic; rather, it is a work of historical analysis grounded in years of research. It will not only contribute to the scholarly understanding of Vatican II and its aftermath but also offer guidance to Catholics seeking a path toward genuine renewal, grounded in a thorough and accurate assessment of what actually happened.

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