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More copies of this ISBN:Papal Sin: Structures of Deceitby Garry Wills
Synopses & ReviewsBook News Annotation:Wills (history, Northwestern U.) characterizes the modern papacy as
steadfastly unwilling to face the truth about itself, its past, and
its relations with others. Citing the Holocaust, discrimination
against women, the assertion that natural law dictates its sexual
code, and other matters, he argues that even when the Vatican tries
to be honest, it ends up resorting to historical distortions and
evasions.
Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com) Review:Praise for Garry Wills's Saint Augustine "This brilliant biography, this excellent small book, presents with brio the life of a person who still stirs us, throws us off, speaks to us, heart to heart. Garry Wills's agile mind matches the agility of St. Augustine. --New York Times Book Review "Not often, but every now and then, a truly gifted film director takes up well-known material... and turns a subject with which we thought we were thoroughly familiar into something once again strange and challenging... Garry Wills's Saint Augustine has done this. Seldom has a long-familiar figure, whose works fill thirteen double-columned volumes in the standard edition, and whose life and thought have been debated for sixteen hundred years, emerged so fresh and challenging, from so masterful a 'director's' hand... A deft and ingenious expositor set to work upon a great thinker." --The New York Review of Books Synopsis:From Pulitzer Prize-winning author Garry Wills comes an assured, acutely insightful, and occasionally stinging critique of the Catholic Church and its hierarchy from the 19th century to the present. Wills describes a papacy that seems steadfastly unwilling to face the truth about itself but also reminds the reader of the positive potential of the Church. About the AuthorGarry Wills is an adjunct professor of history at Northwestern University. Wills received a Ph.D. in classics from Yale and has had a distinguished career as an author, with books such as Lincoln at Gettysburg, John Wayne's America, a biography of St. Augustine, and A Necessary Evil: A History of American Distrust of Government. He has received numerous accolades, including the 1993 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction (for Lincoln at Gettysburg) and the NEH Presidential Medal. Wills is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and his articles appear frequently in The New York Review of Books. Table of ContentsRemembering the holocaust — Toward the holocaust — Usurping the holocaust — Claims of victimhood — The tragedy of Paul VI: prelude — The tragedy of Paul VI: encyclical — Excluded women — The Pope's eunuchs — Priestly caste — Shrinking the Body of Christ — Hydraulics of grace — Conspiracy of silence — A gay priesthood — Marian politics — The gift of life — The age of truth — Acton's reckless truth — Newman's cautious truth — Augustine vs. Jerome — Augustine vs. Consentius — The truth that frees. What Our Readers Are SayingBe the first to add a comment for a chance to win!Product Details
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