I note the appearance of Richard Overy's new study of the period between the wars, mainly since it looks at the 'presentiment of impending disaster' which Overy sees as characterising the period. From the reviews, it seems that Archbishop Lang features among Overy's subjects. I haven't yet read it, but there is perhaps a particular type of Christian pessimism at that time which would certainly bear more investigation.
It is reviewed at length by Eric Hobsbawm in the London Review of Books.
Stations on the road to a non-liturgical time
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From time to time churches decide that their liturgies need to be revised.
Such revisions are rarely easy, since the religious life for many people
depends...
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