Table of Contents

Preface: The Post-War World and the Council
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations

Part I: From the Cold War to Civil Rights

1. From World War II to Cold War Catholicism

2. Religious Renewal in the Context of Secularism

3. Diversities, Silence, and Open Conflict

4. Civil Rights and Catholic Mobilization

Part II: The Second Vatican Council

5. The Preparatory Phases 1959-1962

6. The First Session

7. Interim Periods, Debates on the Church and Liturgy

8. Building Bridges to the World 1963-1965

9. The Word in the World 1964-1965

10. Epilogue: Spirit and Letter

Bibliography
Index

About the Author

Joseph P. Chinnici is President Emeritus of the Franciscan School of Theology at the University of San Diego and continues to teach there. He dedicated his life as a Franciscan priest to the education of graduate students for ministry.

Reviews

a sure guide
*James M. O'Toole, Church History*

Well-written and based on a rich and updated bibliography...it is not only a useful tool for understanding the way the Second Vatican Council changed American Catholicism, but also a book that manages to satisfy the curiosity of a reader who wants to find more about how the Church and social life interacted.
*Iuliu-Marius Morariu, Babels-Bolyai University*

An excellent addition to scholarship.
*CHOICE*