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Describes how American Jesuits pulled together to operate the nation's leading Catholic schools, seminaries, and universities after World War II, and how their supporters soon dispersed after the social revolution of the sixties
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A perceptive & provocative analysis of the transformation that swept through American Catholicism in the decades leading up to Vatican II.The Jesuits have been the carriers of a culture borne along by a fruitful & often frustrating tension between their dual commitment to ancient virtues & to the pursuit of the free play of ideas. This book explains developments among the Jesuits and sets them in the larger context of the sea-changes that shook the world and the Catholic Church in the world during the mid-20th century.
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