The Sign of the Cross: Travels in Catholic Europe

Colm Toibin. Vintage Books USA, $13 (0pp) ISBN 978-0-679-75855-6

Novelist and ""collapsed Catholic"" Toibin looks at Catholic rituals as practiced throughout Europe. (Sept.)

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