Roman Catholic Beliefs in England: Customary Catholicism and Transformations of Religious AuthorityMichael Hornsby Smith examines the religious transformations that have occurred among English Catholics since the Second Vatican Council of 1962 65. He explores the meanings English Catholics attach to being Roman Catholic and to Catholic beliefs over a range of concerns from doctrinal matters to questions of personal and social morality. He also examines the legitimacy accorded by English Catholics to both papal authority and religious authority in