Years of Crisis: Collected Essays, 1970–1983 by James Hitchcock is a collection of essays analyzing the challenges and changes in the Catholic Church and American society during this turbulent period (1970–1983), exploring themes such as secularization, post-Vatican II Catholic identity, church-state relations, and the impact of social change on faith, often from a conservative perspective critical of modernity, as presented in Hitchcock's works focused on Catholic theology and history. This book is a trenchant analysis of one of the most transformative periods in the history of the contemporary Catholic Church, seen through the eyes of a scholar concerned with the direction of modernity and its implications for faith.