19 years ago Gary Wills made his first appearance on the program. Wills is known as one of our leading authorities on the subject of the Catholic Church. While Wills is a devout Catholic he had no qualms about expressing his concerns about the current state of the Catholic Church.
19 years ago the scandals about the widespread abuses of pedophile priests were finally getting some public exposure and Wills was quite willing to discuss that issue as well many other others which concerned him. The church policy of forced celibacy for priests, for one.
Wills in an extraordinary scholar. When he talked about the history of the Catholic Church it wasn't some boring lecture. He made it thoroughly entertaining!
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