The Church in Crisis Benson the Dominican A

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he also founded Oratory houses and served as rector of the Catholic University of Ireland

Georges Bernanos’s powerful debut novel

” (Entrance Antiphon for December 19)

(Charles Péguy)

The Church in Crisis Benson the Dominican ABy 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