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Written in late 70's early 80 anticipating a 3rd world war and nuclear holocaust.Interesting to read after all sorts of other things have happened - nuclear non-proliferation treaty, 911, Iraq, Afghanistan, and all sorts of other political events that were not even thought about at the time of writing. ( )

What would happen, if the members of the Roman Curia discovered that the Pope was about to state publicly that he had received a private revelation that the world was about to end? Pope Gregory XVII claims to have received a private revelation of the end of the world - an apocalypse coming not in some distant future but at any moment. Is he a madman, as his cardinals suspect, a mystic, or a fanatic grasping for an unholy power?

Na sua obra há quase sempre uma ligação religiosa. A este aspecto não é indiferente o facto de ter sido monge docente durante oito anos. Vale a pena ler Morris West. ( )

Es la historia de un Papa, de comienzos del siglo XX, que al asumir el pontificado, sintiendose responsable de poner las cosas en claro en el seno de la Iglesia, prepara una enciclica en la que se jugaba su posicion, prestigio y ruburosas verdades que deberian salir a la luz. Uno de los espias de la curia del Vaticano, descubre el borrador de la citada enciclica. A partir de ese momento, comienza una encarnizada persecucion a su persona, es decir, al Papa, quien es obligado a abdicar, o renunciar al papado, y mantenido en situacion de casi incomunicado dentro de ciertos recintos del Vaticano. Con ayuda de un influyente amigo, logra salir de los muros del claustro; huye y es perseguido, la consigna es matarlo.