Between The Rock and a Hard Place: Being Catholic today
ABC Books, $30 pb, 243 pp
All in the Family
There is a moment in this book where Paul Collins finds himself on a public bus somewhere between Queanbeyan and Canberra. The phone rings. The caller is Morris West, the author, who, in the years before his death in 1999, became a kind of cardinal in the hierarchy of dispossessed Catholics. West had heard that Collins was in a spot of bother over his views on the papacy and had rung to lend sympathy and support.
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Between The Rock and a Hard Place: Being Catholic today
by Paul Collins
ABC Books, $30 pb, 243 pp
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