Volume 45, Number 3 · February 19, 1998
The Vatican Monarchy
By Garry Wills
BOOKS DISCUSSED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nearer, My God: An Autobiography of Faith
by William F. Buckley Jr.
Doubleday, 313 pp., $24.95
The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara
by David I. Kertzer
Random House, 350 pp., $26.00
Mary Through the Centuries: Her Place in the History of Culture
by Jaroslav Pelikan
Yale University Press, 267 pp., $25.00
Man of the Century: The Life and Times of Pope John Paul II
by Jonathan Kwitny
Henry Holt, 754 pp., $30.00
Saints and Sinners: A History of the Popes
by Eamon Duffy
Yale University Press, 326 pp., $35.00
Lives of the Popes: The Pontiffs from Saint Peter to John Paul II
by Richard P. McBrien
HarperSanFrancisco, 520 pp., $29.50
The Smoke of Satan: Conservative and Traditionalist Dissent in Contemporary American Catholicism
by Michael W. Cuneo
Oxford University Press, 214 pp., $27.50
William Buckley, in a book that mixes Catholic polemic, a survey of religious opinions, and personal reminiscence, tells us how, as children, he and his sister baptized unsuspecting adult visitors to their parents' house:
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