Title: Pope John XXIII
Author: Thomas Cahill
Publisher: Viking Books, January 2002
This book isn’t something I would normally have read, but it was loaned to me
by a friend. It was written in an interesting manner and held my attention while
covering a topic that I knew very little about. It was intriguing to read about
some of the machinations of Vatican politics, the promotion of men up the
hierarchical structure the Roman Catholic church has devised, the selection
of popes by the college of cardinals, and the sometimes nebulous, often
nefarious intertwining relationships between the Vatican, Pope, and the nation
states of Europe.
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