Title: The Facts
Product review: I don't know what the religious status of the author has to do with the quality of his argument. But for what it's worth, James Carroll discusses his excommunication in his memoir, An American Requiem. There's no doubt about the facts here.As for the book, it's a wash. Carroll writes well, even if his prose is always too sentimental. But he's not an historian. This is a risible cartoon of Catholicism's teaching on Judaism. For those of us who have read his puerile, anti-Catholic columns in The Boston Globe, it's all sadly predictable.
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