John Courtney Murray, Time/Life and the American Proposition: How the CIA's Doctrinal Warfare Program Changed the Catholic Church Volume II

What's in this book will blow your mind and make you consider much of what you thought you knew about 20th century geopolitics and the Catholic Church. This book is one for the ages and sits alongside other world-view shaping books, like Tragedy & Hope, on my bookshelf.Would love if the author produced a hardcover of this work since it's a work of history that deserves a more permanent binding.

Well researched, well documented and well written. It combines an extensive source and archive research with doctrinal commentary to understand the implications of the topic in hand.Recommended for anyone who wants to understand in depth the doctrinal changes that operated in the Western world after WW2 and especially after the Second Vatican Council in the Catholic Church.

This book gets five stars for its content. It explained so much of post-WWII history, especially with respect to the Catholic Church, but much more widely in terms of European and South American culture.There are a few typos and the index numbering seems to have gone a bit mad, but for a self-published book, this is a serious achievement. The research is extensive and impressive, and the evidence and interpretation put forward is a major challenge to the "mainstream" view of a benign American hegemon after 1945.Well worth reading.