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I will look up the book and its reviews, if any, on Amazon. Thanks for the reference. It sounds as though you are capable of authoring an interesting review — have you written one?

I have well over a hundred Catholic titles from Amazon in my library,a large part of it unread, seems my collecting habit is currently larger than my reading habit. Only recently have I attempted to do some reviews, more as a marker to what I already own and/or read. I've been tempted to do a review of The Decline and Fall... but really to do a good review in competition with the others, I either have to take notes, up my outlining or read the book twice. Consequently most of my reviews are quite lightweight, unless I'm among the first to review a book. The reviews for the David Carlin book are excellent on Amazon. Let me know in the future if you have read this and what you thought. It certainly has the ability to twist around some of your thinking a bit. An excellent overlay of structured thinking & truth!

http://www.amazon.com/Decline-Fall-Catholic-Church-America/dp/1928832792/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1273618545&sr=8-1

Far be it from me to disagree with the premise that the decline in certain areas of the church is part of a broader sociological phenomenon. I think that definitely is the case...i.e. modernism; liberalism. But clearly what smacks some of us in the face is the changes in Liturgy, etc.