New Oxford Notes: July-August 2018
Off with His Head!
A writer wants Cardinal Sarah fired from his post as prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship because he "does not speak for the mainstream of the church."
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A Crisis of the Four Last Things
Guillaume Cuchet, a specialist in contemporary Church history, looks at the spectacular decline of Catholicism in France and sees the root cause in the Church, with Vatican II as the primary catalyst.
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