Papal Sin

"Wills describes a papacy that seems steadfastly unwilling to face the truth about itself, its past, and its relations with others.". "Wills traces the rise of the papacy's stubborn resistance to the truth, beginning with the challenges posed in the nineteenth century by science, democracy, scriptural scholarship, and rigorous history. The legacy of that resistance, despite the brief flare of John XXIII's papacy and some good initiatives in the 1960s by the Second Vatican Council (later baffled), is still strong in the Vatican.". "Finally Wills reminds the reader of the positive potential of…