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"Wonder what's going on behind those huge doors at the Vatican? Wonder what those cardinals are up to as they scurry about getting ready to elect a new pope? Wonder what the man who rings the bells when that new pope is finally elected is thinking? Thavis answers all in this fascinating book."
--USA Today
What exactly goes on inside the Vatican?
John Thavis describes in riveting detail the workings of a secretive and often chaotic culture which he has viewed as a journalist close up for thirty years.It's a place where cardinals fight private wars, scandals are constantly threatening to undermine Papal authority and reverence for the past comes up painfully against modern life.A place where careerism overshadows quiet dedication, where there are conflicting agendas and shifting alliances.
Who wins out when plans for a much-needed underground car park run up against the discovery of a Roman burial ground?
Why do the bells fail to ring when the new pope is elected?
What does George Bush bring to the Pontiff as a present?
And above all, what should we make of that most baffling of popes, Benedict XVI?
'A heroic and realistic and (yes) humorous picture of a mortal institution.To an old Prot like me, it's a tour of alien terrain and a bridge to old and dear friends' Garrison Keillor
'Highly readable.John Thavis follows the conclaves, sex scandals, internal backstabbing and Olympian nature of the popes with a sense of comic relief at the caravan passing through his viewfinder'Jason Berry, author of Render unto Rome
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