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From: Conscience
Date: 20020922
Author:Bryden-Brook, Simon

TAKE BACK THE TRUTH: CONFRONTING PAPAL POWER AND THE RELIGIOUS RIGHT

Joanna Manning (Crossroad, 2002 (pbk.), 174 pp.)

"Truth for its own sake," said Charles Kingsley in his famous attack on John Henry Newman, "had never been a virtue with the Roman clergy." In response Newman wrote his Apologia pro Vita Sua and won that particular battle of words. But is there any substance in the claim that "truth for its own sake" is not considered a virtue by the Roman clergy? Garry Wills in his Papal Sin: Structures of Deceit (Doubleday, 2000) has made out a strong case for deceit ...

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