Assesses the impact of the Second Vatican Council on the ordinary believer, alongside contemporaneous shifts in British society
Inhaltsverzeichnis
1. Introduction: A Vatican rag
2. English Catholicism reconsidered: beyond 'ghettos' and 'golden ages'
3. Gatherings at the family table: the liturgy, the Eucharist and Christ Our Brother
4. 'A model for many homesteads': Marian devotion, the Holy Family and Catholic conceptions of marriage and sexuality
5. 'Plaster saints' or 'spiritual friends'? St Thé rè se of Lisieux, St Bernadette Soubirous and the Forty Martyrs
6. Conclusion: Hymns ancient and modern
Appendix 1: Oral history interviewees
Select bibliography
Index