Overview

Many on the Catholic right agreed with a statement from Pope Paul VI in 1972 that the mainstream Catholic Church had fallen into decline. In this work, the author explores what these fundamentalists believed the cause to be and how they planned to halt its spread. From conservatives and their steadfast moral militancy, to separatists and their belief in the need for alternative communities, to Marianists and their tenets of mystical prophecy, Cuneo portrays the motivations of these individuals who have taken as their task the preservation of authentic Catholicism in North America.

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Readers caught by the title of Michael Cuneo's new study of traditional-minded Catholics will not be disappointed. Juicy exposA(c)s of strange religious compounds reminiscent of Waco and scholarly inquiries into the cult mentality of modern separatists fill six well-researched chapters... Lurid details of the most bizarre beliefs are recounted, to Cuneo's credit, without sarcasm. -- Crisis

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Michael W. Cuneo is an associate professor of sociology and anthropology at Fordham University.

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