Shall He Find Faith on Earth? A Critical Account of the Crisis in the Church

Sixty years after the Second Vatican Council, Claude Barthe revisits the decisive moment that reshaped the modern Catholic Church. He argues that the Council, marked by ambiguities and a non-dogmatic approach, opened the door to theological pluralism and the relativism that characterizes the Church’s present crisis. Placing Vatican II within a broader historical arc—from the Church’s confrontation with the legacy of the French Revolution to the modernist crisis—Barthe offers a critical contribution to the ongoing reassessment of the Council and its consequences.