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标题：Papal hack
作者：Charles P. Weber
期刊名称：Commonweal
印刷版ISSN：0010-3330
出版年度：2005
卷号：April 22, 2005
出版社：Commonweal Foundation

Papal hack

Charles P. Weber

I was surprised and troubled by Luke Timothy Johnson's sympathetic review of John Cornwell's The Pontiff in Winter ("Tragic Flaws," March 25). In my opinion, Cornwell is a fabulist and a hack who delights in doing "hatchet jobs" on popes he doesn't like. Hitler's Pope, his attack on Pius XII, was devastatingly exposed by Justus George Lawler in his truly scholarly Popes and Politics. The Pontiff in Winter deserves the same kind of scrutiny. If Commonweal is going to retain my respect, loyalty, and support, I insist that a rebuttal review be published. That way the magazine will remain true to its liberal tradition that I have cherished over the years.

(REV.) CHARLES P. WEBER

Sanbornville, N.H.