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The Irony of Modern Catholic History: How the Church Rediscovered Itself and
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The Irony of Modern Catholic History: How the Church Rediscovered Itself and Challenged the Modern World to Reform Hardcover - 2019

by George Weigel

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Throughout much of the 19th century, both secular and Catholic leaders assumed that the Church and the modern world were locked in a battle to the death. The triumph of modernity would not only finish the Church as a consequential player in world history; it would also lead to the death of religious conviction. But today, the Catholic Church is far more vital and consequential than it was 150 years ago.

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Basic Books, September 2019. Hardcover. New.
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About the author

George Weigel is distinguished senior fellow of Washington's Ethics and Public Policy Center and one of America's leading public intellectuals. The first volume of his biography of Pope John Paul II, Witness to Hope, was a New York Times bestseller, and his writing appears regularly in a variety of publications, including the Wall Street Journal. He lives in North Bethesda, Maryland.