
Bare Ruined Choirs: Doubt, Prophecy, and Radical Religion
The Catholic Church is in disarray. A crisis of authority followed on the false optimism of the Second Vatican Council, just as it did on the empty hopes of President Kennedy's 'Camelot.' In Bare Ruined Choirs, Mr. Wills takes the confusion of the Church as a model of institutional breakdown, not only in religion but in the state.
Buy this book at Amazon- Publisher
- Paulist Press
- Year
- 1974
- ISBN-13
- 9781587681929
- Genre
- Nonfiction
- Topics
- Catholic ChurchReligious crisis and reformSecond Vatican Council
Awards
- National Book Award for NonfictionShortlistedMajor(1973)
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- Inventing America: Jefferson's Declaration of Independence
- Attica: The Official Report of the New York State Special Commission on Attica
- Venice: Lion City
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