Описание: The Sixties was an iconic decade, conjuring images of marked generational conflict and sex, drugs and rock-n-roll, but also of the Second Vatican Council (1962-5), permissive legislation and Britains counter-culture, as well as the social transformations of a period encompassing ecumenism, the advent of the womens movement and the beginning of the Irish Troubles.
Better known as the creator of the BBC television series Captain Pugwash, John Ryan (1921-2009), through his weekly illustrations in the Catholic Herald, offered a topical interrogation of the British Catholic Churchs sometimes adaptive, though often inflexible responses to the changes and challenges of the period. This collection of Ryans cartoons provides a personal portrait of the extraordinary ups and downs of religion in the Sixties-encompassing the machinations of popes and cardinals, the testimony of expert witnesses, runaway priests, radical reformists and lay protest movements.
