The controversial memoirs of Robert Blair Kaiser's teens and twenties in the Jesuits, and of his early thirties as a star correspondent at Vatican II.
Robert Blair Kaiser is the author of 8 books. His articles have appeared in a score of magazines from Life to Look to Rolling Stone, Saturday Review, Ladies Home Journal, and the New York Times Sunday Magazine. He currently writes for Newsweek from Rome, where he also pens his periodical e-mail letters on the Vatican, which are enjoyed by thousands of persons around the world.
"Wow! Quite a book!"--Andrew Greeley
"Clerical Error is written in quadraphonic sound. It leaves readers
with questions that demand answers on every level if they want to
grow up."--Sister Joan Chittister, O.S.B.
"Kaiser has made himself our Virgilian guide to the lower depths of
the church. A memoir that will hold its own beside classics like
Robert Graves's Goodbye to All That."--Ted Morgan
"An insider's memoir of the Second Vatican Council by a gifted
journalist whose reportage became a dynamic force at the council.
Painfully honest, courageous, and unafraid."--Kevin Starr
"Great entertainment. A genuine page-turner. It races along like a
fast-paced thriller. Strutting aside, Kaiser provides discrete
chunks of cameo, first-class Catholic history here. There are lots
of names, but not name-dropped names. Quite honestly, the
"Kaiser, now the Vatican correspondent for Newsweek, has revealed
everything in a cathartic memoir, Clerical Error: A True Story, to
be published next month in the US. It reads like a Shakespearean
saga of innocence, ambition, betrayal, farce and tragedy
"His views of the Vatican are compelling." --The Dallas Morning
News, April 11, 2002
"A steamy soap opera. Kaiser's views of the Vatican are
compelling." --Susan Hogan, The Wichita Eagle
"A remarkable story... Although this memoir is based on a true
story, it reads in many places like a novel."--Publisher's
Weekly
"...[a] riveting read....A timely and prophetic book, which you
will not be able to put down." --Catholic New Times
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