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...VICAR OF CHRIST by Walter F. Murphy Macmillan; 632 pages...
...Walter F. Murphy persuades. In his hands, the audacious thesis of this massive, complex first novel becomes fascinatingly logical and intellectually gripping. No better fiction on the world of the Vatican is now in print. Murphy, a Princeton law professor, is a compulsive storyteller, and in The Vicar of Christ he tells three tales that could have made books in themselves. Part 1, reliving Declan Walsh's military adventures in Korea through the ripely phrased recollections of a Marine master gunnery sergeant, is a crisp, realistic novella. Part 2, narrated in the fastidious accents of an Associate Justice...
Neither Francesco nor the novel that contains him is without great flaws. The barracks vulgarity of Part 1 is as tedious as basic training, and the narrator's stilted diction in Part 2 is hardly more en dearing. Women serve principally as walk-ons in The Vicar of Christ, including Declan's wife Kate, whose tragic death drives him to the monastery...
...took his Ph.D. at the University of Chicago. Since 1958 he has taught at Princeton, and in 1968 was named McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence. He has written six books on law and politics, one of which figures as an inside joke in The Vicar of Christ: the Associate Justice narrating the second part cites a title from a certain "vulgar political scientist...
...other possible political events in between. We must be free to preach justice and to do justice." Those were the precise ideas, if not the very words, of Pope John Paul II on his visit to Mexico last January, well after The Vicar of Christ had gone to press...