Reviews of Inside the Vatican: The Politics and Organization of the Catholic Church

By Thomas J. Reese
(Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1996)


List of reviews as of October 24, 2005

Actualidad Bibliografica 68 (1997), by J. Vives

America, by James Hennesey, January 18, 1997

Bank's Word, "John Paul II's Cruel See," by Kevin Rafferty, April 15, 1997

Blue and Gray, "Reese’s Thesis: Vatican Must Change," by Chris Raphael, April 28-May 11, 1997

Booklist, by Steve Schroeder, December 15, 1996

The Boston Globe, "‘Inside Vatican’ Peeks Behind Veil of Secrecy," by Diego Ribadeneira, January 31, 1997.

Business Day (Johannesburg), "Life in Vatican's kingdom laid bare," by Kieran Cooke, February 24, 1997 [see Financial Times]

Catholic Chronicle, "Jesuit author’s latest book looks at Vatican from many angles," by John Thavis, January 31, 1997 [see Catholic News Service, by John Thavis]

Catholic News Service, "Jesuit Author’s Latest Book Looks at Vatican ‘From Many Angles,’" by Jennifer E. Reed, November 14, 1996

Catholic News Service, by John Thavis, December 20, 1996

Catholic News Service, by Nancy Hartnagel, February 25, 1997

Choice, by W. L. Pitts, Jr., May 1997

Christian Century, "At the office in Rome," by Jeffrey Gros, February 19, 1997

The Chronicle of Higher Education, "New Scholarly Books," by Nina C. Ayoub, February 7, 1997

Cleveland Plain Dealer, Service]."Combination of church and state," Matthew T. Gamber, May 3, 1997 [see Religion News

Commonweal, by Daniel Hoye, December 6, 1996

Coral Gables Gazette, by George Volsky, April 9-15, 1997

Cross Currents, "Centralization is the Watchword," by John J. O'Keefe, Winter 1997-98

Department of Political Science Newsletter, University of California Berkeley, Summer 1997

The Detroit News, "Michigan cleric makes his mark on Vatican," by Gary Heinlein, March 13, 1997

The Economist, "The Politics of Catholicism," March 15-21, 1997

The Financial Post (Toronto), "Ill-equipped Vatican City struggles to deal with modern world," by Kieran Cooke, February 8-9, 1997 [see Financial Times]

The Financial Times (London), by Kieran Cooke, February 8-9, 1997

Greenwich Time, by John Linsenmeyer, July 16, 1997

Inside the Vatican, "Church + Americanization=Church," by John Trumbull, February 1997

International Minds, "The Pope's HQ," by Paul Spackman, vol. 7, no. 4, 1997

The Irish News, by Brian Lennon, November 14, 1996

The Irish Times (Dublin), "The Curia and other curiosities," by Seán Mac Réamoinn, March 1, 1997

Journal of the American Academy of Religion, by John Coleman,

Journal of Economic Literature, vol. 35, June 1997

Library Journal, by John Moryl, November 1, 1996

The National Catholic Register, by Russell Shaw, February 2-8, 1997

National Catholic Reporter, by Michael Walsh, December 27, 1996

The New Leader, "Demystifying an Ancient Autocracy," by Jonathan Kwitny, December 16-30, 1996

The New York Times, "The Roman Empire," by Richard Neuhaus, March 2, 1997

News (Palm Beach, Florida), February 9, 1997

Original Issue [Tax Analysts], by James Byrne, December 1996

Our Sunday Visitor, "How the Vatican works (and how it doesn't)," by Greg Burke, December 29, 1996

Pastoral Life, by Michael P. Orsi, April 1997

Press Democrat, "The Unseen Church," by Diego Ribadeneira, February 9, 1997 [see Boston Globe]

Publishers Weekly, October 28, 1996

Religion News Service, "Telling the Catholic church’s story with wit and honesty," by Matthew T. Gamber, April 30, 1997

Revue Française de Science Politique, April 1997

St. Anthony Messenger, "A Social Scientist Looks at the Governance of the Church," by Peter McCloskey, O.F.M., July 1997

The San Francisco Chronicle, "The Absolute Power of the Papacy," by Don Lattin, January 19, 1997

San Juan, Puerto Rico Star, "Peeks behind veil of secrecy," by Diego Ribadeneira, March 30, 1997 [see Boston Globe]

Spojrzenia, by Tadeusz K. Gierymski, May 26, 1998

Studia Canonica, 31/2, "Book Reviews," Lynda A. Robitaille, volume 31/2, 1997, pp. 531-33.

The Sunday Telegraph, "The Power of the Pope," by Paul Johnson, January 12, 1997

State Journal-Register (Springfield, Ill.), "A glimpse behind the veil of the Vatican," by Diego Ribadeneira, February 9, 1997 [see Boston Globe]

Studia Canonica, by Lynda A. Robitaille, vol. 31/2, 1997

The Tablet [London], "An American in Rome," by George Bull, February 22, 1997

Theology Digest, "Inside the Vatican," vol. 44, Fall 1997

Time [Atlantic edition], "Telling the Gospel Truth," by Greg Burke, January 13, 1997

The Times [London], "Varied views of life behind papal walls," by Roger Boyes, January 2, 1997

The Times Literary Supplement, "Don't be surprised," by Margaret Hebblethwaite, September 5, 1997

Tribune [Dublin], "Pope must concede power," by John Cooney, January 26, 1997

The Washington Post, "Book World," January 19, 1997, p. 13

Wilson Quarterly, by Thomas M. Gannon, S.J., Winter 1997

Interviews in Print Media

Commonweal, by Margaret O'Brien Steinfels, December 6, 1996

National Catholic Reporter, "Reese knows what goes on Inside the Vatican," by Arthur Jones, December 27, 1996

Star Tribune, "Scholar's new book looks 'Inside the Vatican,'" by Nolan Zavoral, February 15, 1997

USA Today, by Andrea Stone, November 1-3, 1996, p. 3

Interviews on Radio and TV

ABC News, February 21, 1998

ABC Chicago, September 23, 1996

BBC Radio 4, "Sunday," January 19, 1997

BBC Radio Scotland, "Benchmark," by John MacGill, June 19, 1997

CBC, November 1, 1996

CBC documentary on the next conclave, April 23, 1997

CBS Radio, St. Louis, November 18, 1996

CBS Television, "This Morning," December 11, 1996

CNBC "Hard Talk with Christopher Matthews," April 2, 1997

CNN International, March 28, 1997; "Insight," March 31, 1997

Cox Broadcasting, March 14, 1997

CTV October 31, 1996

KSDAM, Radio, St. Louis, November 18, 1996

KUSA-TV, March 28, 1997

MSNBC, July 9, 1996, September 16, 1996, September 23, 1996, October 7, 1996, October 8, 1996, October 25, 1996, November 1, 1996, November 15, 1996, November 19, 1996, March 28, 1997, April 12, 1997

NBC, March 3, 1997, March 27, 1997,

NBC Chicago, February 3, 1998

NPR, October 17, 1996

NPR, "All Things Considered," November 14, 1996, January 21, 1998

NPR, "Weekend Edition," January 25, 1998

Voice of America [television & radio], "Talk to America," November 27, 1996

Voice of America [radio], April 28, 1997, January 26, 1998

WAMU Radio [NPR], "The Derek McGinty Show," March 11, 1997

WKYC-TV, March 28, 1997

WTAM Cleveland [radio], November 20, 1996


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