The Third Secret - Softcover

The Third Secret

Paperback. Zustand: Good. 400 pages. page edge foxed/tanned, text lightly tannedSet in the near future, The Third Secret introduces Jakob Volkner--Pope Cleme nt XV--a German caretaker pope who, nearing the age of 80, was elected as John P aul II's successor. But three years into his papacy, the thoughtful Clement has begun to quietly express skepticism about papal infallibility and the Church's r estrictive dogma, and to make odd requests of his longtime secretary, Monsignor Colin Michener, an Irish-born but American-reared priest whose vows of celibacy have been tested--and found wanting. Clement has also made repeated visits to a guarded sanctum within the Vatican archives, where sacred and historic documents are stored. And he's dispatched Michener to Romania to locate an elderly cleric who, in the 1950s, translated three cryptic prophecies, purportedly offered by the Virgin Mary in 1917 to a trio of children in Fatima, Portugal. Those secrets have since been fully disclosed to the world. Or have they? That's the question facing Michener in the wake of Clement's shocking suicide, as he pursues a twis ted trail of clues, crimes, and religious forecasts from Rome to Bosnia to Germa ny, accompanied by his former lover, journalist Katerina Lew. But making any add itional secrets known to the world will put Michener in confrontation with doctr inal reactionaries, led by Cardinal Alberto Valendrea, the Vatican's Italian sec retary of state, who's determined to follow Clement as the Vicar of Christ--even if that requires inventing a few new sins and flouting a 900-year-old predictio n of doom for the next pope. Artikel-Nr. 3523f

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