A Perennial Digression

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The Christianity the Council Wanted

The Christianity the Council Wanted

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In the first post of this series, we summarized John T. McGreevy’s argument that the last 200+ years of Catholic history is basically a conflict between the Ultramontanists and the Reform Catholics. Ultramontanists were victorious at Vatican I and crafted the Catholic Milieu; Reform Catholics were victorious at Vatican II, but have yet to get their chan…

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