Excerpts
from reviews of John Cardinal Krol and the Cultural
Revolution ($35 + S&H) by E.
Michael Jones, Ph.D.
"This is one of the most
fascinating books you will read during this season or perhaps during many a
season to come. ... This is a book you do not want to miss if you want to
understand what happened - and what we are faced with now. ... E. Michael Jones
has done a great service in laying out in this book what really happened and
what is really at stake." K. D. Whitehead, FCS Newsletter.
"an account of the revolution in American mores during the 1960s and early
1970s, and of the part played in that struggle by the bishops and bureaucracy
of the Catholic Church ... drawn from massive and apparently uncensored
documentation made available by the cardinal. ... illuminating and outrageous
history ... . Not that the cardinal emerges unscathed, which makes his decision
to open his archives still more credible." Patrick G. D. Riley, Homiletic
& Pastoral Review.
"no mere list, no abstraction, no tired repetition of cultural revolution
bromides. It is a gutsy, juicy, name-calling, finger-pointing, and superbly documented
panoramic of the last three decades ... astonishingly interesting, virtually a
thriller, a suspenseful face-off of good guys and bad guys, with a lot of
confused in-betweeners stumbling around, generally making things worse for the
good guys." Tom White, Piers Plowman's Journal.
"Cardinal Krol gave Jones access to his papers, so far the only person to
receive such permision, and that in itself makes this book valuable. ... The
coincidence of the Second Vatican Council and the rise of the 'counterculture'
has often been noticed, and Jones interweaves the two, alternating Krol's role
in Rome as a council father and his handling of unprecedented problems in his
archdiocese. The contrast is enlightening, among other things showing how ideas
discussed in the abstract in Rome were working themselves out in the American
situation. ... Jones treats almost everyone in the book sympathetically. ...
Jones's provocative thesis should be taken into account by everyone interested
in the postconciliar American Church." James Hitchcock, The Catholic
Historical Review.
" ... one compulsively flips the pages in search of another really good
part. ... questions are raised that deserve careful exploration by scholars who
may be strongly opposed to Jones' unvarnished partisanship. Regrettably, these
questions likely will not be taken up, thereby reinforcing Jones' argument that
liberals refuse to face unpleasant truths. ... although Jones obviously wants
to be kind to the Cardinal, Krol comes across as an embattled ecclesiastical
CEO who, especially on matters theological and intellectual, was in way over
his head. ... Equally intriguing is the role of Father Theodore Hesburgh,
longtime president of Notre Dame, who, according to Jones, was actively
collaborating with the Rockefeller Foundation in undermining church authority,
and was declaring Catholic higher education to be independent of church control
at the same time that he was increasingly subservient to the control exercised
by secular foundations. ... Jones produces enough evidence (also from the files
of those on the Rockefeller and Planned Parenthood side) to warrant a detailed
response from people more sympathetic to what Father Hesburgh was up to. ... an
important book. Again and again, one wants to hear the other side of the story,
the alternative and more benign interpretation. But that task is not in the
portfolio of E. Michael Jones. He is the prosecutor. ... he has made a case
very damaging to persons and institutions responsible for much that has happened
in American Catholicism over the last thirty years." Janet Marsden, First Things.
"... extraordinary importance. ... At least with respect to two issues in
which I was deeply involved - government family planning and freedom of
parental choice in education - I can testify to Jones's accuracy in describing
what proved to be fateful developments. ... I deem it a blessing that Jones was
granted full access to the Krol files so that the story of those events could
at last be brought to light. ... Jones is 'must' reading." William Bentley
Ball, First
Things.
"Dr. E. Michael Jones is a thinker of importance, and this is a major work
by him, a work of importance to non-Catholics as well as Catholics because it
deals with a cultural crisis affecting us all. ... Dr. Jones will receive
little gratitude from his own church for calling attention to its failures. The
liberals will detest his truth-telling, and the conservatives are too often
involved in nonsense to care ... . All the same, Dr. Jones has written a work
which is telling, and it will wake up those who are still living." R. J.
Rushdoony, Chalcedon Report.
"Jones explains not only the methods but the motivations of our country's
revolutionaries." Thomas J. Nash, Lay Witness.
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