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THE LOYAL OPPOSITION.(Garry Wills and the Catholic Church)(Review)

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| July 22, 2002 | Acocella, Joan | COPYRIGHT 2002 All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of The Condé Nast Publications Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

It is hard to imagine a more timely book than Garry Wills's "Why I Am a Catholic" (Houghton Mifflin; $26). In the aftermath of recent events, many American Catholics may well be wondering why they are Catholic. That Wills has so promptly suggested an answer is not altogether accidental; after the pedophilia scandal broke, Houghton Mifflin pushed up the publication date by three months. Still, the book is prophetic. Wills cannot have known, when he began it, that a month before its publication America's bishops would be convening in a hotel ballroom in Dallas to hear people weeping as they told how, when they were children, they had been molested by their priests. But he ...

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