Books, Arts & Manners: We the Church

Once a Catholic, by Peter Occhiogrosso (Houghton Mifflin, 416 pp., $18.95)

This is a collection of interviews with Catholics, lapsed Catholics, Catholics in revolt, and even liberal Catholics. Most are writers, but not all: Jimmy Breslin, Christopher Buckley, Daniel and Sidney Callahan, George Carlin, Mary Gordon, Bob Guccione, Eugene McCarthy, Michael Novak, Wilfrid Sheed, José Torres, Frank Zappa, and several others.