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have written for those Catholics born and perhaps catechized before Vatican II
or immediately thereafter who as yet are unaware of the true teaching of the
Council. It should not surprise the reader that there are Catholics whose lifestyles
do not differentiate them all that much from those who are not Catholic and/or
Christian. Moreover, many Catholics of the “baby-boom” generation are alienated
from the Church all together because their only exposure has been to a
superficial, cultural Catholicism, impotent in the face of an American culture
increasingly without faith. Conversely, many others have left the Church –
hungrier, as they say, for a more “biblically-based church.” The book is also
intended for young people of the “JP II” generation of Catholics, born long
after the council but perhaps not fully aware of the turmoil spawned by dissent
in the Church which, though on the wane, is still with us today. These young people,
especially those in authentically Catholic colleges (Franciscan, Christendom,
Aquinas, Ave Maria, etc.) will be the
Church of the 21st century, and in my experience have an interest in
this recent history of the Church.
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