Conclave

by Robert Harris

“The Pope had doubts about God?” “Not about God! Never about God!” And then Bellini said something Lomeli would never forget. “What he had lost faith in was the Church.”

“Sometimes one can know too much, my dear Monsignor O’Malley. I mean, who among us doesn’t have some secret of which he is ashamed?

without a family, one can so easily become obsessed with matters of status and protocol to give one a sense of fulfilment. So