Volume 7, Number 7 · November 3, 1966

The Divided Catholics

By Magdalen Goffin
The Fourth Session
by Xavier Rynne

Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 384 pp., $5.50

What Happened at Rome? The Council and Its Implications for the Modern World
by Gary MacEoin

Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 191 pp., $4.95

Pope Paul VI: Apostle on the Move
by Alden Hatch

Random House, 288 pp., $5.95

Just before the Second Vatican Council opened, The New Yorker published a 'Letter from Vatican City.' This was followed at the close of the session by another equally outspoken article describing and summarizing what had taken place. The measure of the distance we have traveled since then may be gauged by the sensation occasioned both by these articles and by those which Time's Rome correspondent was writing simultaneously.



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