{"id":26318,"date":"2011-05-23T15:33:43","date_gmt":"2011-05-23T15:33:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/john_allen-four_titles_from_a_bumper_crop_of_italian_books\/"},"modified":"2011-05-23T15:33:43","modified_gmt":"2011-05-23T15:33:43","slug":"john_allen-four_titles_from_a_bumper_crop_of_italian_books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=26318","title":{"rendered":"John Allen&#8211;Four titles from a bumper crop of Italian books"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On a per capita basis, Italy probably churns out more books on the Catholic church each year than anyplace else on earth. Given the boost created by the May 1 beatification of Pope John Paul II, this spring has been an especially busy period for the Italian market, generating several titles that will likely make their way into translations and shape Catholic conversation around the world&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>First up is Andrea Riccardi\u2019s Giovanni Paolo II: La Biografia (\u201cJohn Paul II: The Biography\u201d\u009d), published by Edizioni San Paolo. By now there\u2019s a vast John Paul II literature, but this biography &#8212; more than 600 pages long, abundantly documented, and written by someone who enjoyed insider\u2019s access throughout the papacy &#8212; joins the elite group of works that really matter in terms of shaping John Paul\u2019s legacy.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ncronline.org\/blogs\/all-things-catholic\/four-titles-bumper-crop-italian-books\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On a per capita basis, Italy probably churns out more books on the Catholic church each year than anyplace else on earth. Given the boost created by the May 1 beatification of Pope John Paul II, this spring has been<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=26318\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,39,50,42,92,186,200,154,364],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-books","category-church-history","category-europe","category-other-churches","category-roman-catholic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26318\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}