- Paperback: 288 pages
- Publisher: The Harvill Press; First PB Edition edition (3 Sep 1998)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1860465285
- ISBN-13: 978-1860465284
- Product Dimensions: 23 x 15.2 x 3.4 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,139,081 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Secret passions and conflicts divide the Vatican, the Pope lies in a coma, dying. With the media rife with reports of the dying Pontiff's personal diaries, full of doubts about his papacy and the future of the Catholic Church, Cardinal Rossini's dubious past threatens to rise up and engulf him.
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
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Are you interested in the Catholic church especially as witnessed by the hierarchy in Rome? Are you interested in euthanasia? Are you interested in the effect of love? Read Eminence to put yourself at the heart of one of the greatest institutions on earth. I did not know whether Luca would become pope or not till the final paragraph. What a thriller! I enjoyed every monute of this book and recommend it wholeheartedly. Interesting to note that it clearly has been read at high levels in the church and has provoked real debate as to the possibility of an incapacitated pontiff remaining in office. There does not seem any way to get rid of him. Interesting?
16 of 17 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
EMINENCE is a breathtaking journey through the political fabric of the Vatican during a crucial period, set in the near future. The hierarchy wrestles for direction in the lead up of the election of a new Pontiff. Morris West's novel is clearly a "must read" for anyone enjoying a well written, compelling novel.
While you are masterly entertained by the author, he uses skilfully a highly accomplished structure of the novel as his Trojan Horse to present compelling argument to sketch out the fundamental problems facing the Roman Catholic Church, and Christianity at large, everywhere. West's insight and maturity takes you on the path to new thinking on essential questions on spirituality, traditional faith, and illuminates our own search for God, and life's meaning in a new age.
I hope it becomes compulsory reading for high office bearers of the Roman Church, as they soon might need to wrestle with the election of a successor to the ancient throne of Peter.
As to the wisdom of a great writer, we ought to be truly grateful.
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I found the book quite rivetting with an excellent plot. Truely a book worthy of the standard of its author.
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