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Title: Papal Sin : Structures of Deceit by Garry Wills ISBN: 0-385-49411-4 Publisher: Image Books Pub. Date: 18 September, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.24 (137 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: FOR THOSE WHO DOUBT AND THOSE WHO BELIEVE
Comment: This book permits to put in historical perspective some aspects of John Paul II's recent doctrines and the crisis of the Catholic Church. Wills documented call for the renewal of the institution and the clergy, and the rescue of the doctrine of the Fathers of the Church (St. Augustine and St. Thomas), in a modern conception, constitutes required reading for those who love Jesus and want to see its Church grow. Certain prejudices and mechanisms of deception that could have been explained in the past, according to the author find no place in these times of fundamentalisms and fanatical illusions, that are filling with grief and misery the world. While millions are starving, scores of innocent kids lie abandoned around the world, AIDS is the plague of the moment, and the number of new catholic priests is smaller, maybe it is time to reassess, with the heart and the mind, Roman Catholic Church's stance on contraceptives. I recommend this book to anyone interested in the historical motives for the inception of the dogma of papal infallibility. But also read Hans Kung's works, for another perspective, regarding the theological doubts that dwell in a catholic's mind in modern times.
Rating: 5
Summary: An honest look at a religious institution.
Comment: I picked up this book expecting (and, quite frankly, hoping for) a list of all the popes since Peter and the gossipy details of the awful things they'd done.
I wasn't at all disappointed to find something entirely different, and more interesting. I have studied the Catholic Church and other religious institutions a moderate amount, with an eye towards their importance in the social lives of those who claim membership. Faith and spiritual guidance are an essential part of so many peoples' lives, and spirital institutions have high expectations to meet. They have to represent that which millions of people _worship_.
*Papal Sin* is the perfect book for ordinary people who are willing to take an honest look at church power. Gary Wills doesn't use this opportunity to bash the church, and to me it doesn't matter one bit whether he is Catholic. He is simply reaching back into history - to actual documentation of certain dishonesties supported and/or propagated by certain occupants Vatican City - and writing engagingly about what concerns him.
Serious scholars might want to look elsewhere; but I recommend this book to those who have their own confused feelings and opinions about church policies about abortion, contraception, homosexuality and other important social issues. They should feel free to read this book without guilt or embarrassment. Gary Wills' articulation of his arguments may be helpful to those hoping to flesh out their own ideas. Even if you disagree with him, you will have formed an honest opinion (perhaps proving that some *structures of deceit* can't blind ordinary people to the truth).
Rating: 1
Summary: Another point of view
Comment: Jenkin's recently-published book "The New Anti-Catholicism: the last acceptable prejudice" discusses the startling phenomenon of self-professed "Catholics" who, while rejecting the basic elements of the Catholic Faith as it has been understood for many centuries and giving vent to the sorts of anti-Catholic diatribe one associates with protestant fundamentalists of the most hair-raising variety, manage to avoid charges of bigotry because, after all, they are "loyal sons and daughters of the Church!" Jenkins offers some useful criticisms of Wills' pronouncements and those of other dissenters who, while seemingly tailor made for membership in the Episcopal Church in America (or some other mainline protestant organization), perversely cling to an ersatz "Catholic" identity.
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Title: Why I Am a Catholic by Garry Wills ISBN: 0618134298 Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Co Pub. Date: July, 2002 List Price(USD): $26.00 |
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Title: The Catholic Church : A Short History by Hans Kung ISBN: 0812967623 Publisher: Modern Library Pub. Date: 07 January, 2003 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
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Title: Saint Augustine (Penguin Lives) by Garry Wills ISBN: 0670886106 Publisher: Viking Press Pub. Date: January, 2003 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: A People Adrift : The Crisis of the Roman Catholic Church in America by Peter Steinfels ISBN: 0684836637 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Pub. Date: 05 August, 2003 List Price(USD): $26.00 |
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Title: Hitler's Pope: The Secret History of Pius XII by John Cornwell ISBN: 0140296271 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: 03 October, 2000 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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