Now available to preorder: THE SECOND SLEEP, Robert Harris's new thriller. ________________ THE POWER OF GOD. THE AMBITION OF MEN. ***SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER*** The Pope is dead. Behind the locked doors of the Sistine Chapel, one hundred and eighteen cardinals from all over the globe will cast their votes in the world's most secretive election. They are holy men. But they have ambition. And they have rivals. Over the next seventy-two hours one of them will become the most powerful spiritual figure on earth. ________________ 'Unputdownable' Guardian 'Gripping' Sunday Times
Conclave
Conspiracy, intrigue and faction fighting as the future of Europe hangs in the balance: Mary Hollingsworth tells the story of the papal conclave in 1559.
Passano i giorni, le settimane, i mesi, ma i cardinali giunti a Roma da ogni parte del mondo non riescono a trovare un accordo per eleggere il nuovo papa. Le...
But when knights serving the Conclave of Shadow steal secret technology from a museum exhibit on the Argent Aces, everyone looks to Mr. Mystic for help.
Author Douglas Niles is well-known to and popular with both recent and long-term Dragonlance novel fans.
Here is a fascinating behind-the-scenes account of history in the making-- the election in 2013 of Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio, the first Latin American pope, the first Jesuit pope, and the first pope to choose the name Francis.
He was succeeded by Nicholas I, one of the most powerful personalities to govern the Western Church in the first millennium. Nicholas, however, was not the Romans' first choice — that had again been Hadrian, who had for the second time ...
Cardinal Leandro Biagi, a wily and urbane politician who would be at home in the time of the Medicis and Borgias...and Jaime de Guzman, the Archbishop of Manila and longtime friend of Tim Mulrennan's, the one man who speaks in the American ...
The Conclave
In the heart of this book, Malachi Martin recreates the actual scenario of Conclave 82.