Like most Evangelicals of my generation—like most Protestants for the last five centuries—I was raised to regard the Vatican as a den of iniquity and the pope as the living symbol of all that was wrong with the Roman Catholic Church. Pius XII, the pope in office when I entered grade school in the 1950s, had no individual reality for me, nor did his immediate successors: the (...)
February 25, 2011
Books
A Sensitive Head
Light of the WorldThe Pope, the Church, and the Signs of the TimesBenedict XVI, interviewed by Peter Seewald. Translated by Michael J. Miller and Adrian J. WalkerIgnatius Press, $21.95, 239 pp.
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