The Church in Crisis Benson It was not you who

It was not you who chose me

” (Entrance Antiphon for December 19)

(Charles Péguy)

Charged by the Allied administrators “to rehabilitate Austria”—with a particular responsibility towards all “displaced persons”—the British Colonel Nicobar and his staff take up residence in the convent of the Daughters of the Holy Ghost

the West is undergoing just such a crisis

The Church in Crisis Benson It was not you whoBy Philip Hughes On January 25, 1959, Pope John XXIII convoked the Second Vatican Council, initiating a series of history shaping achievements and crises. Yet, as The Church in Crisis: A History of the General Councils, 325 1870published one year after that convocationillustrates, Vatican II is but one among many in that regard. Each of the twenty councils studied in this volume had its origin in a particular crisis within or around the Churcha crisis