The Church in Crisis Benson ISBN: 978-1952826702

ISBN: 978-1952826702

leaving the management of Saint Michael’s Mill to his wife

” (Entrance Antiphon for December 19)

the West is undergoing just such a crisis

The Church in Crisis Benson ISBN: 978-1952826702By Philip Hughes On January 25, 1959, Pope John XXIII convoked the Second Vatican Council, initiating a series of history shaping achievements and crises. Yet, as The Church in Crisis: A History of the General Councils, 325 1870published one year after that convocationillustrates, Vatican II is but one among many in that regard. Each of the twenty councils studied in this volume had its origin in a particular crisis within or around the Churcha crisis