The Church in Crisis Benson the West is undergoing just

the West is undergoing just such a crisis

leaving the management of Saint Michael’s Mill to his wife

the three works from Jacques and Raïssa contained in this volume are lovingly written by friends

(Charles Péguy)

The Church in Crisis Benson the West is undergoing justBy Philip Hughes On January 25, 1959, Pope John XXIII convoked the Second Vatican Council, initiating a series of history shaping achievements and crises. Yet, as The Church in Crisis: A History of the General Councils, 325 1870published one year after that convocationillustrates, Vatican II is but one among many in that regard. Each of the twenty councils studied in this volume had its origin in a particular crisis within or around the Churcha crisis