Two new books take very different pathways in telling the story of St. Francis.

'A Double Life,' J. Michael Lennon's biography of Norman Mailer

The Rev. Donald Cozzens has now been joined by James Martin, S.J., in shedding light rather than heat on long-suppressed questions about the proportion of and challenges to homosexual priests in America (“The Church and the Homosexual Priest,” 11/4/00). Both men are concerned about pries