Catholic Power in the Netherlands

by Herman Bakvis

This book examines the role of the Dutch Catholic church, and especially of the bishops, in ensuring the solidarity of the Catholic subculture for so many years and, more remarkably, in promoting drastic social and political changes after Vatican II. This development transformed one of the most orthodox churches in Western Europe into the most radical and, as Professor Bakvis demonstrates, led to the decline and fall of the largest political party...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0773503617
• ISBN13: 9780773503618
• Release Date: December 1981
• Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
• Length: 1 Pages