Over the course of the next few years, Jones and a host of like-minded writers began to uncover the sad story of the subversion of the Catholic faith at the hands of fellow Catholics in the years following the Second Vatican Council." Thereafter, he started a magazine first known as Fidelity and later as Culture Wars, that "set out to explore the disarray in the Catholic Church that led to his firing. He was fired in 1981 for anti-abortion views. He made little effort to conceal his views, leading to conflicts with many faculty, his department and eventually the college's president. To Jones' displeasure, he found this college to be what he considered to be "the antithesis of what a Catholic college should be", being champions of abortion, radical feminism and secular humanism. from Temple University and began to teach at Saint Mary's College. He found little satisfaction after leaving his faith, and eventually returned to it after reading The Seven Storey Mountain by Thomas Merton. After growing up in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Jones fell away from his Catholic Faith, and became immersed in the counterculture of the 1960s.
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