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One of the best new books about Americans’ interest in the Vatican is the epic history of The National Catholic Reporter—Beacon of Justice, Community, and Hope.
Here’s a summary of what’s inside this fascinating look at the church’s impact around the world and across the U.S.:
Discover the 60-year history of the National Catholic Reporter Publishing Company, sustaining NCR’s commitment to covering the nation, the world, the Catholic Church, and the Catholic faith. From the Second Vatican Council through the era of Pope Francis, this nonprofit has served as the leading independent Catholic news source reporting on the church’s involvement in war and peace, ecojustice, and cultural issues worldwide.
Lawrence Guillot’s history also is the story of one in five Americans who identify as Catholic, more than 50 million people whose lives have been shaped by the world’s largest Christian denomination. Starting with reporting on the dramatic changes ushered in by Vatican II that affected every Catholic parish in the world, this book tells the story of courageous journalists who banded together to report on those often-turbulent waves of modernization. The story focuses on the huge challenges, some nearly fatal to the publishing company, that they had to overcome to keep the presses rolling and, today, to keep the NCR’s extensive online and multimedia offerings rolling onto the internet.
And, in telling that story, this book offers a history of the Catholic Church as it passed through one of the most vibrant and consequential periods in its history and continues to serve its nearly 1.4-billion baptized members today.
Care to jump right to sections on papal transitions?
When you get your copy of this book, turn to:
Chapter 14. The Year of Three Popes: The John Paul II Era Begins
Chapter 61. The New Pope: Cardinal Ratzinger Becomes Benedict XVI
Chapter 77: Enter Francis, Global Parish Priest—A Ministry of Mercy
What’s so fascinating about this book is that it recalls how many American Catholic families experienced and reflected on these major transitions in the church’s global leadership.