Atheist wills books and papers to pontifical university

Yahoo News reports that Oriana Fallaci, noted journalist and self-described atheist, willed her books and papers to the Pontifical Lateranese University in Rome. In the summer of 2005 she met privately with the Pope to discuss militant Islam and its threat to western civilization.  In an interview with the Wall Street Journal after that meeting, Fallaci stated,  “I am an atheist, and if an atheist and a pope think the same things, there must be something true.”

Fallaci is best known for her books, The Rage and the Pride and The Force of Reason, scathing essays on Islamic terrorism and European submission that earned her death threats. At the time of her death from cancer she was on trial in Italy for defaming Islam.

Both of her books are available at the John Paul II Library.

The Rage and the Pride – PN5246 F35 A3 2002
The Force of Reason – D1053 F35 2006