First published in 1949, Carol Jackson Robinson’s Catholic polemic The Perverse Generation resonates today, says Julian Kwasniewski.
Was 1949 a long time ago? Reading Carol Jackson Robinson’s This Perverse Generation gives a strange sense of simultaneous distance and closeness to 1949, when this book was first published. Recently republished, we have an opportunity to reflect on where the world has gone in the past 74 years, how Catholicism has (or hasn’t) addressed these changes, what work we should devote ourselves to, and with what attitudes.
