Mass Exodus: Catholic Disaffiliation in Britain and America since Vatican II by Stephen Bullivant
English | July 30th, 2019 | ISBN: 0198837941 | 336 pages | EPUB | 2.29 MB
In 1962, Pope John XXIII opened the Second Vatican Council with the prophecy that 'a new day is dawning on the Church, bathing her in radiant splendour'. Desiring 'to impart an ever increasing vigour to the Christian life of the faithful', the Council Fathers devoted particular attention to the laity, and set in motion a series of sweeping reforms. The most significant of these centred on refashioning the Church's liturgy 'the source and summit of the Christian life' in order to make 'it pastorally efficacious to the fullest degree'.