MASS EXODUS: CATHOLIC DISAFFILIATION IN BRITAIN AND AMERICA SINCE VATICAN II. By Bullivant, Stephen. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019

Resenha escrita por Maureen Day: In demonstrating the significance, for example, of the tightly connected, pre‐War Catholic communities of the 1930s and 1940s and the distinctiveness of Catholic practices in this era, the reader sees the efficacy of these in reinforcing identity and moral coherence. And not only does he examine the multiple events and circumstances that scattered these communities and minimized or ended unique practices, but he also discusses the significance of current Catholic attitudes and behaviors for the religion's ongoing reproduction. In the end, scholars of Catholicism and other Catholic voices who (1) “blame” the Second Vatican Council for the empty pews, (2) attribute disaffiliation to a thwarting of the fullness of the Council, or (3) believe disaffiliation was a result of causes completely outside Catholicism should be left realizing that their schema is too simplistic.