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Article: BLESSED PIUS IX/THE POPE IN WINTER: THE DARK FACE OF JOHN PAUL'S PAPACY
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- The Spectator
- Article date:
- November 27, 2004
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They knew they were right BLESSED PIUS IX by Roberto de Mattei Gracewing, £14.99, pp. 202, ISBN 0852446055
THE POPE IN WINTER: THE DARK FACE OF JOHN PAUL'S PAPACY by John Cornwell Viking, £20, pp. 310, ISBN 0670915726 &, £18 (plus £2.25 p&p) 0870 800 4848
Pope Pius IX, to the 'liberal' mind, is the archetypal Catholic reactionary. When the present Pope beatified him, it was seen by his own critics inside the Church (a dwindling but, as John Cornwell's latest anti-papal offensive demonstrates, increasingly ill-tempered band) as the final proof of their now largely discredited claim that the underlying purpose of John Paul's pontificate has been to reverse the reforms of the ...