{"product_id":"the-great-facade","title":"The Great Facade","description":"\u003cp\u003eEmpty seminaries  shuttered parishes  crisis-level priest shortages  altar girls  trendy \"liturgies\" -- not to mention worldwide homosexual clergy scandals  loss of faith  and the exodus of Catholics from the Church. What has happened to the Catholic Church since 1965? Why did the Church suddenly seem to lose her very identity after the Second Vatican Council? Where is the much-vaunted conciliar \"springtime\"? In this book  Christopher A. Ferrara  Esq.  and Dr. Thomas Woods cut through the confusion and the doubletalk and get to the heart of the matter: it was not nameless  faceless \"liberals\" but the Council itself and decisions by the Vatican and the conciliar Popes that brought on the current unparalleled ecclesial crisis. While the Church still stands  her teachings are still there and her traditional Latin Mass is still alive  Catholics are now forced to look hard in order to find these things. They must look behind a great facade of novelty and failed experimentation imposed upon the Church in the name of Vatican II -- a facade that separates Catholics from their own God-given patrimony: 2000 years of traditional teaching  liturgy  and spirituality. In order to restore the Church to vigor  millions of so-called \"traditional\" Catholics are abandoning the feeble neo-Catholicism that has arisen over the past forty years and seeking a return to the virile Catholicism of the perennial Church. This book also refutes  with devastating logic and precision  all the common \"neo-Catholic\" objections to the traditionalist position  while confounding all the usual \"neo-Catholic\" excuses for the ruinous mistakes of judgment by Church authorities that have reduced the Church to her current condition. The great facade is already crumbling and beginning to fall. This book exposes its flimsy footings and gives it a powerful shove.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44959877464117,"sku":"ByrdShop_1890740101","price":34.01,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781890740108.jpg?v=1770377602","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-great-facade","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}