Anyone read "Why I am a Catholic"?

[epower]

I am reading “Why I am a Catholic” by Gary Wills. I just started reading the book. He presents good arguments about common Catholic misbeliefs. The book is well documented, although I have not read his sources.

He seems a little liberal, but seems to present a fair and balanced view of the Catholic Church.

Has anyone else read this book?
Is anyone familiar with his writings?

Should I be sceptical about some of the things which he says?

 

[Batjacboy]

epower,

Please read this.

Excerpt:

[Wills] willfully mistreats the Church’s scriptural and historical foundations, undermining Catholic claims that often prove decisive in winning converts from other traditions. And he indulges unjustly and uncharitably his distaste for fellow Catholics who, in remaining faithful to Roman teachings on a host of subjects, offer a fighting strength to the “people of God” against the pitfalls of the modern age—among them the enervating materialism and moral relativism that find commonplace expression through our culture’s sexual fixations.

A former Jesuit seminarian, Wills deals with the Scriptural foundations of the papacy with a carelessness to make even the most anti-papal Protestant cringe . . . He portrays Saint Peter—the man who identified Jesus of Nazareth as “the Son of the living God” before Christ acknowledged as much to any man—as a hopeless buffoon . . .

Along with his flippant readings of Scripture, Wills the historian abuses his professional discipline to write a most tendentious, whirlwind account of Roman corruption, error, and folly throughout the millennia—again in order to undermine Vatican claims to authority.

 

[epower]

Thanks for the link. The information was just what I was looking for.