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Article: The triumph of wills.(SHELF LIFE)(books)(Book review)
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- National Review
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- February 27, 2006
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IN 2002, Garry Wills--the distinguished NATIONAL REVIEW alumnus long renowned for his dissents from Vatican orthodoxy--published a book titled Why I Am a Catholic. ("Some who have read this book," he later admitted, "still ask why I am a Catholic.") His answer in that volume boiled down to an effort to disengage the concept of Catholicism from that of the papacy, and the idea of the papacy from the papacy as it has actually existed. This distinction between Catholicism-as-idea and Catholicism-as-organization has been much favored by liberals in recent years, but it has been useful even to conservatives. In a recent Weekly Standard article, for example, First Things editor ...