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PAPAL SIN and its exposé of a fundamental dishonesty at the heart of the papacy provoked both praise and heated debate. Accused by some of harboring deep resentments against the church, Wills counters with a powerful statement of his Catholic faith.
Wills begins with a reflection on his early experience of that faith as a child, and later as a Jesuit seminarian, revealing the importance of Catholicism in his own life. He goes on to challenge, in clear and forceful terms, the dogmatic claim that criticism or reform of the papacy is an assault on the faith itself. In a sweeping narrative covering two thousand years of church history, he reveals that the papacy, far from being an unchanging institution, has been transformed dramatically over the millennia and can be reimagined in the future. Wills ends with a moving meditation on the significance of the creed, the timeless core of the Catholic faith, which endures even as the institution of the church changes.
Posing urgent questions for Catholic and non-Catholic readers alike, Wills argues for the continuing relevance of a papacy newly understood. He has already stirred up controversy about the failures of the church. Now, at a time when the selection of a new pope is imminent, he is sure to spark an equally heated conversation about its future.
Wills begins with a reflection on his early experience of that faith as a child, and later as a Jesuit seminarian, revealing the importance of Catholicism in his own life. He goes on to challenge, in clear and forceful terms, the dogmatic claim that criticism or reform of the papacy is an assault on the faith itself. In a sweeping narrative covering two thousand years of church history, he reveals that the papacy, far from being an unchanging institution, has been transformed dramatically over the millennia and can be reimagined in the future. Wills ends with a moving meditation on the significance of the creed, the timeless core of the Catholic faith, which endures even as the institution of the church changes.
Posing urgent questions for Catholic and non-Catholic readers alike, Wills argues for the continuing relevance of a papacy newly understood. He has already stirred up controversy about the failures of the church. Now, at a time when the selection of a new pope is imminent, he is sure to spark an equally heated conversation about its future.
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- Title Why I Am a Catholic
- Author Garry Wills
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 390
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Houghton Mifflin, Wilmington, Massachusetts, U.S.A.
- Date 2002-07-16
- ISBN 9780618134298 / 0618134298
- Weight 1.51 lbs (0.68 kg)
- Dimensions 9.22 x 6.2 x 1.3 in (23.42 x 15.75 x 3.30 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Catholic Church - Apologetic works, Papacy
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2002283644
- Dewey Decimal Code 239
Media reviews
"The entire last section of WHY I AM A CATHOLIC is among Wills's most memorable writings." --Denis Donoghue New York Review of Books
"Wills . . . explodes much of what passes as institutionalized Catholicism . . . and in his closing and very close reading of the Apostles' creed, boils the question of why one could possibly be a Catholic down to its essentials." --John Anderson The Nation
"It is hard to imaginea more timely book than Garry Wills's "Why I Am a Catholic" . . . it is a great satisfaction to have the Church's history analyzed by a mind so critical but still so in love." --Joan Acocella The New Yorker
"Wills's book is well written and carefully referenced to support his point of view." Publishers Weekly, Starred
"The prolific historian offers a timely confession of faith and an apology in the true sense of the term." Kirkus Reviews, Starred
"This new book . . . is a powerful work of personal reflection and history . . . Wills . . . is simply the most astute Catholic writer in America today." --James Carroll Boston Globe
"Wills . . . explodes much of what passes as institutionalized Catholicism . . . and in his closing and very close reading of the Apostles' creed, boils the question of why one could possibly be a Catholic down to its essentials." --John Anderson The Nation
"It is hard to imaginea more timely book than Garry Wills's "Why I Am a Catholic" . . . it is a great satisfaction to have the Church's history analyzed by a mind so critical but still so in love." --Joan Acocella The New Yorker
"Wills's book is well written and carefully referenced to support his point of view." Publishers Weekly, Starred
"The prolific historian offers a timely confession of faith and an apology in the true sense of the term." Kirkus Reviews, Starred
"This new book . . . is a powerful work of personal reflection and history . . . Wills . . . is simply the most astute Catholic writer in America today." --James Carroll Boston Globe
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