White Smoke: A Novel About the Next Papal Conclave - Hardcover

Greeley, Andrew M.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0312858140 ISBN 13: 9780312858148

Publisher: St Martins Pr, 1996

Synopsis

As the cardinals of the Church gather in Rome for the election of a new Pope, Bishop John Blackwood Ryan, reporter Dennis Molloy, and CNN correspondent (and Molloy's ex-wife) Patricia investigate a Vatican banking scandal and an assassin out to destroy the next Pope.

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Review:

The Vatican and the New York Times are just two of the sacred cows milked for all they're worth by Andrew M. Greeley in White Smoke. Greeley's starting point--the openness and tolerance espouse by Pope John XXIII in 1963 has, in the intervening decades, been squashed by more conservative forces. Greeley's ending point: the election of a liberal pope who is not only a pro-feminist, but who was once married. In between, he skewers the New York Times in the person of correspondent Dennis Michael Mulloy, a "typical Irish Catholic journalist--magical with words, a fall-down drunk, divorced, fallen away from the church."

About the Author:

Andrew M. Greeley divides his time between teaching at the University of Chicago and the University of Arizona.

About this edition

• Publisher: St Martins Pr
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0312858140
• ISBN 13: 9780312858148
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 384