Volume 41, Number 21 · December 22, 1994

The Tragic Pope?

By Garry Wills

OTHER BOOKS DISCUSSED IN THIS ARTICLE

Crossing the Threshold of Hope
by His Holiness John Paul II, edited by Vittorio Messori, translated by Jenny McPhee, by Martha McPhee

Knopf, 244 pp., $20.00

Prayers and Devotions from Pope John Paul II introduction by
edited and with an Bishop OSA van Lierde, Peter Canisius Johannes, translated by Firman O'Sullivan

Viking/a Giniger book, 466 pp., $17.95

Catechism of the Catholic Church

Liguori Publications, 803 pp., $19.95 (paper)

The Place Within: The Poetry of Pope John Paul II
translated by Jerzy Peterkiewicz

Random House, 197 pp., $10.00 (paper)

The Papacy
by Bernhard Schimmelpfennig, translated by James Sievert

Columbia University Press, 330 pp., $20.00 (paper)

Was the Pope subjecting us to a Great Wu routine? It seemed so. Let Orson Welles, always a bit of a Wu himself, explain:



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