Garry Wills, perhaps the nation’s widest-ranging man of letters or, as the phrase now goes, "public intellectual," has never concealed his Catholicism. But he has usually worn it discreetly, indeed keeping a mocking distance from self-consciously "Catholic" intellectuals who made their church too much of their public identity. Two years ago, however, he published Papal (...)
July 12, 2002
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Why I Am a Catholic
Why I Am a Catholicby Garry WillsHoughton Mifflin, $26, 390 pp.
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