Volume 4, Number 5 · April 8, 1965
Dissenting Catholics
By J.M. Cameron
Objections to Roman Catholicism
edited with an Introduction by Michael de la Bedoyère
J. B. Lippincott, 184 pp., $3.95
The self-examination of the Catholic Church, begun overtly and publicly with the election of Giuseppe Roncalli to the Papacy, is a wonderfully interesting process. Here is the oldest institution in western Europe, substantially unchanged in structure, in liturgy, and in theological language since the reform of the sixteenth century, now engaged in—it is no longer possible to doubt this—a radical criticism of all those things which separate Catholicism, as a religious cult and a way of life, from Orthodoxy and Protestantism on the one hand, agnostic and humanist culture on the other. It is possible to be disappointed, agonized, amused baffled before this spectacle.
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