That narrative is simplistic, and McGreevy complicates it.

这种说法过于简单，而麦克格里维则将其复杂化。

As John T. McGreevy observes in Catholicism: A Global History From the French Revolution to Pope Francis, signs that the Church has lost vitality are abundant.

正如约翰·麦克格里维在《天主教: 从法国大革命到教皇方济各的全球史》一书中所评论的那样，教会失去活力的迹象比比皆是。

McGreevy, a practicing Catholic and the provost of the University of Notre Dame, is well placed to offer perspective on the Church as an institution at once teetering and thriving.

麦克格里维是一名虔诚的天主教徒，也是圣母大学的学院院长，他很有资格就教会这个既摇摇欲摇又欣欣向荣的机构提出自己的观点。

Now taking the Church's global presence as his subject, McGreevy has written a lucid narrative of two and a half centuries of history, structured rather like a Ken Burns–Lynn Novick documentary.

现在，麦克格里维以教会的全球性为主题，对两个半世纪的历史进行了清晰叙述，结构与肯·伯恩斯-林恩·诺维克的纪录片颇为相似。