In this second edition of The Great Fa ade, co-author Christopher A.
Ferrara brings the original work up to date with six new chapters addressing what Bishop Athanasius Schneider has called the fourth great crisis in the history of the Catholic Church.
The additional chapters chronicle the attempts at ecclesial restoration by Benedict XVI and the Francis revolution following Benedict's mysterious resignation--including Francis's tumultuous Synod on the Family and his radical reform of the process for determining matrimonial nullity, leading to what some call Catholic divorce and a threat of schism on the magnitude of the Lutheran revolt of the 16th century.
This new look at the 50 years following the Second Vatican Council is sure to provoke discussion and debate among Catholics concerned about the state of their Church.
There is no doubt in my mind that The Great Fa ade has been prophetic in the broader scriptural sense of the term.
Its authors saw that Catholicism was under obvious assault, that the consequences of its rout would be dreadful, and that their failure to take up arms against a sea of enemies would be a punishable dereliction of duty.
Those new to the crisis in the Church as well as old soldiers seeking to recharge intellectual batteries can make use of the book's succinct outline of the modernist positions in matters of faith and morality that so swiftly rode to dominance on the back of the Second Vatican Council.
--JOHN RAO, author of Black Legends and the Light of the World One of the most important books of the post-conciliar era, The Great Fa ade has earned the right to share the top shelf with such masterworks as the trilogy of Michael Davies, Romano Amerio's Iota Unum and von Hildebrand's The Devastated Vineyard.
As the original publisher of this magnum opus, I am delighted that Angelico Press has brought out a new edition in which Mr.
Ferrara provides six additional chapters documenting the rapid advances of 'the regime of novelty' fol.
Angelico Press The great facade: the regime of novelty in the catholic church from vatican ii to the francis revolution, paperback/christopher a. ferrara
