The Church in Crisis Benson ” (Entrance Antiphon for December

” (Entrance Antiphon for December 19)

It was not you who chose me

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the West is undergoing just such a crisis

(Charles Péguy)

The Church in Crisis Benson ” (Entrance Antiphon for DecemberBy 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