Volume 49, Number 19 · December 5, 2002
High Fidelity
By Garry Wills
The Courage to Be Catholic: Crisis, Reform, and the Future of the Church
by George Weigel
Basic Books, 246 pp., $22.00
George Weigel, former president and now senior fellow of the Ethics and Public Policy Center, has written a major and much-respected biography of Pope John Paul II. He knows and is known by important Vatican figures, and is in full sympathy with the Pope's thoughts and actions. Without being an official spokesman, therefore, he may in some measure reflect Vatican thinking on current scandals in the Catholic Church. His new book is, in fact, often mentioned by Governor Frank Keating of Oklahoma, who leads the review board for evaluating the American bishops' observance of their Charter of the Protection of Children.[1]
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