Vatican II Behind the Iron Curtain Jerry Morelock Flores recovers a complex and

Flores recovers a complex and little-known political world shaped by events south of the U

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Vatican II Behind the Iron Curtain Jerry Morelock Flores recovers a complex andA substantial historiography has emerged across national and linguistic boundaries documenting the Second Vatican Council. And yet virtually no attention has been devoted to the links between the Council and the Catholic faithful who had found themselves living behind an iron curtain by the end of the 1940s. Historians of the Catholic Church have, in fact, mostly rejected the possibility that Communist countries played a role in the Council's story,