Book Review
Defensive Lapses
Bearing False Witness: Debunking Centuries of Anti-Catholic History
by Rodney Stark
Templeton Press, 2016
(216 pages, $27.95, hardcover)
reviewed by R. V. Young
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R. V. Young is Professor of English Emeritus at North Carolina State University, a former editor of Modern Age: A Quarterly Review, and the author of Shakespeare and the Idea of Western Civilization (Catholic University of America Press, 2022). He and his wife are parishioners at St. Ignatius of Antioch Church in Tarpon Springs, Florida. They have five grown children, fifteen grandchildren, and three great-grandchildren. He is a senior editor of Touchstone.
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