Volume 9, Number 2 · August 3, 1967
Act II
By Magdalen Goffin
Paul Blanshard on Vatican II
by Paul Blanshard
Beacon, 371 pp., $5.95
The Drama of Vatican II: The Ecumenical Council, June 1962-December 1965
by Henri Fesquet, translated by Bernard Murchland, Introduction by Michael Novak
Random House, 831 pp., $15.00
If time is reckoned by months and years, it is not so very long since Mr. Blanshard published his bestseller American Freedom and Catholic Power. If, however, time is measured by change, so much has happened to the Roman Catholic Church in the short interval between the publication of that book and the summoning of the Second Vatican Council that we might all have been living for centuries. Then we wondered when reform would begin; now where it will end.
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