- Hardcover: 432 pages
- Publisher: St Martin's Press; 1 edition (30 Aug 2002)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0312873530
- ISBN-13: 978-0312873530
- Product Dimensions: 24.3 x 16.4 x 2.9 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 2,008,359 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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“A gripping read.”—"Kirkus Reviews"
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Within months of his surprise election, Timothy John Mulrennan, now known as Pope Celestine VI, sends shockwaves throughout the church when he calls for a new ecumenical council, or gathering of the world's bishops - the first since the famous Vatican II in the 1960s. Like Good Pope John before him, this pope will strive to bring important, needed change to the Church he loves. A beautiful journalist who loves a priest...a powerful Irish cardinal who opposes the pope's call for a council...a South American business man who once served in a death squad...An American priest who is torn from his troubled parish to be part of the pope's dream...and a former FBI chief who must protect the life of the pontiff and four thousand bishops from around the world...together they are drawn into the maelstrom of power and passion that is COUNCIL.
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Mulrennan regarded his friends and mentor, Leandro Biagi, who had been his luncheon guest in the papal dining room and stayed for an afternoon coffee. Read the first page
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Needs less pontification and more information
29 Aug 2005
Format:Mass Market Paperback
If this book, and perhaps the sequel, were put together, with a lot less of the author's message in the thoughts of the characters -- it would be a great book!
I wanted the author to get to the point! I wanted action! Great premise, great promise, needed follow-through.
I wanted the author to get to the point! I wanted action! Great premise, great promise, needed follow-through.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
High School Compositon
17 Jan 2007
Format:Mass Market Paperback
Given his eye for detail, obviously thorough research, ability to write reasonably well, and obvious commitment as a devout Catholic, this book should be a good read. It isn't. Instead, it is an unfocused mess. It even has digressions that repeat themselves without any intervening material. Did this writer never pass his work beneath the eyes of an editor? If he did, was that editor someone for whom English was a second language? Given the great problems with this book, how does it rise so far in the book distribution world? It's as if a gifted High School student, mentored by a teacher so bemused by the fact that his student knows the difference between a sentence and a paragraph that he fails to notice his student's lack of compositional organization, has suddenly had his second-semester term paper marketed by a bunch of grownups who should know better. It seems to be a trend in the publishing world, but it doesn't change anything: this book does not even rise to the designation of second rate. I am sorry about that, too, because I want to like this book and this author and to buy the other members of the Trilogy. But I cannot. This book is just not worth the money.
3 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Very Interesting
19 Oct 2002
Format:Hardcover
I anxiously awaited the arrival of this book, which is the sequel to Conclave. I felt that the book was very intersting. I felt the calling of a new council was interesting and I also learned a couple of things. I felt that the characters were very interesting. I just love Greg Tobin's writing style. I couldn't put the book down at all. I like the little tibits and the different personalitys that each characater had and I think that is what makes the book very interesting. I would recommend this book to anyone that is interesting to learning what it takes to call a council with all the world's cardinals and bishops.
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