Will John Paul II Reorient

Will John Paul II Reorient a Church

Last month the Catholic Church in the United States was suddenly confronted with a configuration of events of a kind that makes an institution’s entire future prospect uncertain. In all likelihood Church historians will come to identify the period 1982 to 1986 as a watershed in American Catholicism, a brief few years that largely determined its character for decades to come.

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Will John Paul II Reorient a Church

Last month the Catholic Church in the United States was suddenly confronted with a configuration of events of a kind that makes an institution’s entire future prospect uncertain. In all likelihood Church historians will come to identify the period 1982 to 1986 as a watershed in American Catholicism, a brief few years that largely determined its character for decades to come.