Reform Catholicism

By Way of Introduction to a New Series

John T. McGreevy’s Catholicism: A Global History from the French Revolution to Pope Francis (New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 2022) is a tour de force in explaining how Catholicism came to be what it is today, emerging from modernity’s opening first as a religious civilization defined by the “Catholic Milieu” and then, very gradually, reconciling to the mid…