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By Dr. Jeff Mirus, Catholic Culture, Oct 24, 2025
Jeffrey Mirus holds a Ph.D. in intellectual history from Princeton University. A co-founder of Christendom College, he also pioneered Catholic Internet services. He is the founder of Trinity Communications and CatholicCulture.org. See full bio.
Andrew Likoudis, ed., Faith in Crisis: Critical Dialogues in Catholic Traditionalism, Church Authority & Reform. Enroute Books and Media: 2025. 612pp. Paper $29.95; Kindle $9.99.
There has been a trend among Catholic scholars over the past few years of coming together to publish massive collective studies on difficult contemporary moral and spiritual issues. I have already called attention to three such studies on the gender crisis, and now we have a new one focusing on the widespread tendency among different kinds of “Catholics” to explain away the Magisterium of the Church. Edited by Andrew Likoudis, this new collective study is entitled Faith in Crisis: Critical Dialogues in Catholic Traditionalism, Church Authority, and Reform.
As the title suggests, the book devotes considerable space to the problems occasioned by any traditionalism which fails to allow itself to be restricted and shaped by the authority of the Church’s ongoing Magisterium, but its authors are also very conscious of the crisis of Faith in the more liberal wing of the Church, and in modern culture as a whole. To indicate the range of both the topics covered and the authors included, I have reproduced the table of contents at the end of this brief review. ….
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