A Behind-the-Scenes Look at the Power, Personalities and Politics at the Heart of the Catholic Church
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Köp båda 2 för 443 krIn this highly readable memoir of being a journalist at the Vatican, John Thavis follows the conclaves, sex scandals, internal backstabbing and olympian nature of the popes with a sense of comic relief at the caravan passing through his viewfinder -- Jason Berry, author of * Render unto Rome: The Secret Life of Money in the Catholic Church * One closes John Thavis' perceptive study reflecting on the Vatican's challenge: to persist in a secularizing world sometimes fascinated by the pomp and pageantry of St. Peter's-but often hostile or increasingly indifferent to the Church's determined mission to harmonize warring factions and bickering enemies, even if both are on the same Catholic side * New York Journal of Books * Not only provocative, this report is illuminating and fully accessible to members of the faith and doubters alike * Kirkus Reviews *
John Thavis recently retired as the prizewinning chief of the Rome bureau of Catholic News Service, where he had covered the Vatican since 1983. He is the past president of the International Association of Journalists Accredited to the Vatican, and in 2007 the Catholic Press Association awarded him the Saint Francis de Sales Award, the highest honour given by the Catholic press. He divides his time between Minnesota and Rome.