The Transformation of American Catholicism: The Pittsburgh Laity and the Second Vatican Council, 1950-1972

by TimothyKelly (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2009

  $56.25

  Various scholars and media analysts have suggested that Vatican II revolutionized American Catholicism, with the changes it mandated filtering down from the Council to the church hierarchy to the laity. The author challenges this assumption, based on his tracing of Catholic lay practices in the Pittsburgh Diocese from the 1950s through the 1970s.