Sin of Papalism - Hardcover

Wills, Garry

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0385494106 ISBN 13: 9780385494106

Verlag: Bantam Doubleday Dell, 2000

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The Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and author of Lincoln at Gettysburg takes on the papacy, challenging the culture of deceit that surrounds the Vatican in modern times, which prevents the church from facing its own history. 50,000 first printing.

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uth, we are told, will make us free.   It is time to free Catholics, lay as well as clerical, from the structures of deceit that are our subtle modern form of papal sin.  Paler, subtler, less dramatic than the sins castigated by Orcagna or Dante, these are the quiet sins of intellectual betrayal."
--from the Introduction

From Pulitzer Prize-winning author Garry Wills comes an assured, acutely insightful--and occasionally stinging--critique of the Catholic Church and its hierarchy from the nineteenth century to the present.

Papal Sin in the past was blatant, as Catholics themselves realized when they painted popes roasting in hell on their own church walls.  Surely, the great abuses of the past--the nepotism, murders, and wars of conquest--no longer prevail; yet, the sin of the modern papacy, as revealed by Garry Wills in his penetrating new book, is every bit as real, though less obvious than the old sins.

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• Verlag: Bantam Doubleday Dell
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0385494106
• ISBN 13: 9780385494106
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 256