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Title: Structures of Willsian Deceit
Review: This work is not a scholarly look at the papacy. It is a tantrum with footnotes by an anti-Catholic Catholic. While cooing how much he loves the Church, he systematically denies the most basic Catholic doctrines on Christ, Mary, and the Church. His rage know no bounds. He attacks the canonization of Edith Stein, claiming her death had nothing to do with her being a Catholic. In fact, she was killed because she was both Catholic and Jewish; like other Catholics of Jewish descent, she was sent to Auschwitz after the Dutch bishops denounced the Nazis from the pulpit. He claims that the majority of bishops of Vatican II supported contraception; in fact, they explicitly criticized contraception in Gaudium et Spes. He can't even get his facts straight on noncontroversial issues. Where does one find the infancy narrative in Mark? A sad piece of self-hatred, but his masters at New York Review of Books are surely delighted.
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