This review was pretty good.
"Imagine an eight-year-old trying to explain his father's ideas. This book is like that. Pope John Paul II was a man of great philosophical and theological depth and profound life experience. Curran just doesn't have the mental age or spiritual maturity to be interpreting the late pope. John Paul's encyclicals, e.g. Veritatis Splendor, will be beacons lighting the path of Christians long after Curran's name has been forgotten (it is pretty much forgotten already)."
I saw that and thought it was good.
I paged through it, and while it appeared to be non-technical and free of scholarly cant in its approach, I was not impressed. It seems to be rather predictable "JPII social thought--good"/"JP moral thought--bad" stuff. At least Fr. Curran appeared to keep his ego out of the stuff I perused, which is good, if hardly a given.
I read the author profile, learning for the first time that he is a priest in my diocese.
It just gets better and better up here.
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