Thursday, September 29, 2005

Caryl Johnston, The Sprouting of My Catholic Eye.

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Feeling poorly. Picked up from the library Where Have You Gone, Michelangelo? The Loss of Soul in Catholic Culture (Crossroad, 1993), by Thomas Day. From the first chapter:

[By the time of Vatican II] Catholic self-esteem was in great shape, but only as long as the church could pretend that the outside world and its culture really did not exist. . . . [After Vatican II] the angry separatism was over; the rush to become assimilated had begun.