The Catholic revolution new wine old wineskins and the Second Vatican Council /

Synopsis

"The Catholic Revolution offers 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 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 among a generation of Catholics who have become Catholic on their own terms."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved