Customer Reviews:

Avg. Customer Rating: 2.9 / 5.0

A thoughtful account by a Catholic writer:

Overall, this is a highly readable and well-researched book, containing elements of history, journalism, and autobiography. The reviews posted so far to this site are clearly and evenly divided into two camps: those who found it enlightening and moving and those who regard it as anti-Catholic diatribe. While the book has some minor flaws, I direct most of my comments to statements made by the latter group.

First of all, Mr. Carroll, is still a devout Catholic: he was not "defrocked" (he left the... more info

Brilliant work:

I just finished reading James Carroll's book, and I found him to be a brilliant writer. Weaving together both two thousand years of Church history and his own personal spiritual journey, Carroll makes a strong case that the Catholic Church's anti-Judaism (starting with the Gospels) created a significant foundation for the anti-semitism of individual Catholics, and further that the history of the Church's approach to Jews bore fruit in the near genocide of the Jewish people in the 20th century. Some of the... more info

My reation to Constatine Sword:

An excellent book. 5+ stars! each Jew and each Christian should read it. It is an eye opener. Well written, full of information and feeling.

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