Catholics in America: A Restive People.

Focuses on Catholics in America. Suggestion that many American Catholics are deeply unhappy with the direction that Pope John Paul II gave to the church; How, as John Paul's papacy ends, he leaves behind an American church that he energized but that remains restive and divided; John Paul's impact on American politics and culture; Changes in the Catholic church; Changes in attitudes; Issue of the priest shortage; Role of Rome in setting the pace; John Paul's influence in American seminaries; Implications of the turn toward traditionalism for the church as a whole.