# Digest whorl.v012.n117 *The Whorl list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 26 Apr 2001* > Exported from an unofficial mirror of a public mailing list. Copyright > in each message remains with the person who wrote it. > Email addresses are obscured as `user at host`, the form the original > archive published. This file was rebuilt from parsed fields rather than > retained headers, so it is faithful in content but not byte-exact. --- ### David Lebling *26 Apr 2001, 08:29* > On Wed, 18 Apr 2001, William Ansley wrote: > And Pullman evidently regards the success of the first > two volumes in the series to be a license to turns parts of the third book > into a virulent anti-Catholic screed (thinly disguised but unmistakable). Really? Anti-Christian, perhaps, but specifically anti-Catholic? Am I misremembering, but in this universe, didn't John Calvin become pope? It seems to me Pullman is mostly attacking the authoritarian streak that is wide in many religions, including Calvinism and Catholicism. And I wouldn't characterize it as even "thinly-disguised.". Dave Lebling aka vizcacha *This is WHORL, for discussion of Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun. ---