The Irony of Modern Catholic History by Weigel, George -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Title Page Copyright Table of Contents Dedication Prologue: The Ironies in the Fire ACT ONE: CATHOLICISM AGAINST MODERNITY

A Problematic Patrimony Le Déluge Lost Opportunity Missionary and Reactionary The Ultramontane Democratic Socialist The Apogee of Reaction and the Beginning of the Modern Papacy

Entr’Acte: Bridge Builders

Explorers and Pioneers The Novus Ordo in the West

ACT TWO: CATHOLICISM EXPLORES MODERNITY, GINGERLY

Pivot Sanctity, Sacraments, and Repression The Leonine Revolution Revived The Hinge

Entr’Acte: Theological Renaissance

Unshackled Renewal in Several Keys Personalism and Political Theory

ACT THREE: CATHOLICISM EMBRACING MODERNITY

Another Presumptive Placeholder, Another Bold Decision What John XXIII Wanted Setting the Course The Catholic Case for Religious Freedom The Encounter with God Reading and Misreading Modernity Plurality and Pluralism

Entr’Acte: The Council Reconsidered

Checking the Drift Re-Centering on Christ Communio and the Rebirth of Theological Pluralism

ACT FOUR: CATHOLICISM CRITIQUES MODERNITY FROM WITHIN

Distinctively Modern Men Fault Lines in Late Modernity The Free and Virtuous Society Professor Ratzinger’s September Lectures Three Crucial Points

Entr’Acte: A Communion of Disciples in Mission

The Council Without Keys The Extraordinary Synod of 1985 Reliving the Easter Effect

ACT FIVE: CATHOLICISM CONVERTING MODERNITY

Into the Deep Evangelical Catholicism Reimagining the Modern Story The Franciscan Stall From Bitter Irony to Purification The Culture-Converting Counterculture

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