Botched Victory: How World War II Caused Vatican II and C...
Peters, Patrick The Catholic Church guided the West for centuries, overcoming enemies from Nero to Napoleon. So why did she slip into scandals and irrelevance in just a few decades staring from the 1950s? And why did Christian Europe lose its glory and its faith so quickly after triumphing over the Nazi tyranny in 1945? In making its case that World War II caused Vatican II and the de-Christianization of the West, this provocative and well-researched history ...