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Arts & Humanities > Religious Literature Book reviews: The Realm: An Unfashionable Essay on the Conversion of England by Aidan Nichols, OP: 1 of 1

Fr. Nichols makes the case that it is Catholicism that made England and it is only Catholicism (withing which he seems to include Anglo-Catholicism or what is left of it) that can save it today. Thus, the subtitle's use of the word unpopular. It is about England and thus some points (like the monarchy) don't speak much for the situation in America (sadly, enough), however, many do. For example, he points out that declines in Church attendance are not from "principled opposition to the norms of Church doctrine and discipline through this may play a subsidiary part. Instead, it lies in an ap...
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