Eighteen years after Vatican II, this preeminent Catholic author called to account the values and policy of the Catholic church, reevaluating some of the changes that he helped to effect and the impact of these changes on American Catholic life. He concluded, "The world and its church looks far different now in 1983 from its reality in 1965.... All is not well." Originally published by Harper &…
“The Roman Catholic Church spent the first third of this century in opposition to a scientific critique of the Bible. It spent the next third accepting biblical criticism. Only now, in the last third of the century, is it really facing the problem of how to live with the impact of biblical criticism. What the Church thinks about the Bible will affect its total religious outlook. If through bi…