There are books one reads in a single sitting, index finger atremble to turn to the next page. Hanael Bianchi’s A Liberal Revolution is such a book. For Catholics who were subjected to the liturgy and catechesis of the 1970s yet could see all around them glimmers of the way things had been before the shipwreck, any work that helps answer the question “what happened here?” fills a need.One wants to know how such a catastrophic a period in the life of the Church came to pass. For most of the 1980s and 1990s, we were told that councils take a while to bear fruit and that we ought to be patient. Over sixty years on, the argument retains partisans, much as Parkay margarine and Sanka maintain their grip on the same generation.
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