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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 ...