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Gerard Windsor

Gerard Windsor

Gerard Windsor’s most recent book is The Tempest-Tossed Church: Being a Catholic today. He has published twelve books: fiction, memoirs, comic verse, essays, a non-fiction account of an Australian infantry company in Vietnam, and an extended essay on the Camino to Santiago de Compostela. He has long reviewed for the Fairfax and New Limited newspapers.  

Gerard Windsor reviews 'Absolute Power: How the pope became the most influential man in the world' by Paul Collins

September 2018, no. 404 23 August 2018
For more than thirty years, Paul Collins has been His Holiness’s loyal opposition. Absolute Power is the latest round in his spirited debate with the Vatican, the government which has the largest constituency of any in the world. Collins’s interest, in fact obsession, is in the nature and limits of that licence to govern – except that he would question whether the notion of government shoul ... (read more)
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