In this brilliant and passionate book Garry Wills exposes the intellectual dishonesty at the heart of the Catholic Church. Wills claims that incoherent and unsustainable views on the church's historical record, on the priesthood, on women in the Church, and on sexuality are promoted with fervor because the Vatican has convinced itself that it would shake people's faith if the papacy were to change course. To maintain an impression that Popes cannot err, Popes deceive - as if distorting the truth in the present were not worse than mistaking it in the past.
About the Author
Garry Wills is an author and historian, and a frequent contributor to the New York Review of Books. In 1993, he won a Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction for his book Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America, which describes the background and effect of Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address on November 19, 1863. Wills
