'Jesus Wept: Seven Popes and the Battle for the Soul of the Catholic Church' by Philip Shenon is a book that fails to provide new revelations about the Catholic Church. The author's bias is evident in his acknowledgments, where he thanks individuals from the Catholic Left. The book is filled with misrepresentations and inaccuracies about the history of the Church and its popes. Shenon focuses more on scandalous gossip and the Church's sexual abuse crisis, rather than the battle of ideas that shaped 20th century Catholicism. The author's inability to understand the Church as a human institution and a supernatural reality is a fundamental flaw in the book.