Phoenix from the ashes: the making, unmaking and restoration of catholic tradition. – Sire, Henry J.A. Hete Deal

Phoenix from the Ashes is a comprehensive look at the state of the Catholic Church since the Second Vatican Council–one of a series of recurrent periods of moral and intellectual crisis to which it has succumbed in its history. A chapter on the Council describes in detail how Pope Paul VI diverted it by placing it under the exclusive control of European liberals. An equally close study is devoted to the liturgical “reform” entrusted by the same pope to a group of radicals whose work undermined the spiritua…