The Next Pope - Softcover
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I am keeping this book listed for those that might want both copies since the papabili listed and described in this book are different to those in the 2011 issue.
Plus, this book has been reviewed by the likes of the Catholic News Agency and some top reviewers at Amazon. Thank you. Anura Guruge.
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The definitive, no stones left unturned handbook for the next papal election following the reign of the current pope, Benedict XVI. By the author of 'Popes and the Tale of Their Names.' This is a book for anybody that is interested in the popes, papacy, conclaves and Catholicism. This large book is full of insights, analysis, opinions, statistics and trivia. The author's prior book was applauded for its unique look at papal history through the prism of papal names. This book, six times the size, covers potential papabili, papal eligibility, conclaves, papal elections, College of Cardinals and papal names with a similar passion and intensity. A must read for anybody even vaguely interested about popes.
I am keeping this book listed for those that might want both copies since the papabili listed and described in this book are different to those in the 2011 issue.
Plus, this book has been reviewed by the likes of the Catholic News Agency and some top reviewers at Amazon. Thank you. Anura Guruge.
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The definitive, no stones left unturned handbook for the next papal election following the reign of the current pope, Benedict XVI. By the author of 'Popes and the Tale of Their Names.' This is a book for anybody that is interested in the popes, papacy, conclaves and Catholicism. This large book is full of insights, analysis, opinions, statistics and trivia. The author's prior book was applauded for its unique look at papal history through the prism of papal names. This book, six times the size, covers potential papabili, papal eligibility, conclaves, papal elections, College of Cardinals and papal names with a similar passion and intensity. A must read for anybody even vaguely interested about popes.
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From the Author:
Anura Guruge
From the Back Cover:
Papal elections are easily the oldest surviving of electoral processes.
The current sequestered form, i.e., within a conclave, dates back, uninterrupted, to 1294.
The next election will be the seventy-fourth in this sequence. Historical longevity, with its inevitable repertoire of accumulated drama, though enthralling, is but just one of the facets that make papal elections so captivating. The dignified pomp as red-clad cardinals solemnly congregate in Rome, the obstinate
obfuscation as to who is in the running to be the next pope, and the eagerly awaited color-coded smoke signals [sfumata] are matchless and enduring. Even the urn that serves as the ballot box is a bona fide work of art by a well known Italian sculptor, in silver and gilded bronze, with an abstract depiction of the
'Good Shepherd' gracing the top of the tilting lid.
Thus, to say that papal elections are unique is an understatement of considerable magnitude,
hence, the potential to fascinate. That is where 'The Next Pope' comes in. It deals, unstintingly, with the traditions, the norms, the papabili, the rituals, the dynamics, the politics, the mechanics, the laws, the precedents and the pertinent history of papal elections.
This handbook will, therefore, both stoke and satisfy the reader's fascination as to how the next pope will come to be elected.
By the author of 'Popes and the Tale of Their Names' and the publisher of popes-and-papacy.com.
This book will make the reader an expert when it comes to the next papal election,
whenever that may be. Rather than relying on the media for insights and intrigues,
the reader can now be a cognoscenti with an insightful appreciation of what has to happen in Rome.
Updates for this book will be available at popes-and-papacy.com.
The author, Anura Guruge, is a professional writer and of late a conscientious papal historian. His earlier work was devoted to technology; he was an authority on IBM networking for two decades. This is his eighth book, the second on popes.
Matt Kirkland of San Diego, California provided the sketches of the five papabili cardinals that appear in Chapter I. He is a designer who develops websites and consumer products. He has drawn all of the popes.
Anura Guruge
Papal elections are easily the oldest surviving of electoral processes.
The current sequestered form, i.e., within a conclave, dates back, uninterrupted, to 1294.
The next election will be the seventy-fourth in this sequence. Historical longevity, with its inevitable repertoire of accumulated drama, though enthralling, is but just one of the facets that make papal elections so captivating. The dignified pomp as red-clad cardinals solemnly congregate in Rome, the obstinate
obfuscation as to who is in the running to be the next pope, and the eagerly awaited color-coded smoke signals [sfumata] are matchless and enduring. Even the urn that serves as the ballot box is a bona fide work of art by a well known Italian sculptor, in silver and gilded bronze, with an abstract depiction of the
'Good Shepherd' gracing the top of the tilting lid.
Thus, to say that papal elections are unique is an understatement of considerable magnitude,
hence, the potential to fascinate. That is where 'The Next Pope' comes in. It deals, unstintingly, with the traditions, the norms, the papabili, the rituals, the dynamics, the politics, the mechanics, the laws, the precedents and the pertinent history of papal elections.
This handbook will, therefore, both stoke and satisfy the reader's fascination as to how the next pope will come to be elected.
By the author of 'Popes and the Tale of Their Names' and the publisher of popes-and-papacy.com.
This book will make the reader an expert when it comes to the next papal election,
whenever that may be. Rather than relying on the media for insights and intrigues,
the reader can now be a cognoscenti with an insightful appreciation of what has to happen in Rome.
Updates for this book will be available at popes-and-papacy.com.
The author, Anura Guruge, is a professional writer and of late a conscientious papal historian. His earlier work was devoted to technology; he was an authority on IBM networking for two decades. This is his eighth book, the second on popes.
Matt Kirkland of San Diego, California provided the sketches of the five papabili cardinals that appear in Chapter I. He is a designer who develops websites and consumer products. He has drawn all of the popes.
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- PublisherWOWNH LLC
- Publication date2010
- ISBN 10 061535372X
- ISBN 13 9780615353722
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number2
- Number of pages322
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