“Come,” he said. “Join me. Let us say a Mass for our friend together.” As they walked back into the Casa Santa Marta, he took Lomeli’s arm. “The Holy Father told me of your difficulties with prayer,” he whispered. “Perhaps I can help. You know that he had doubts himself, by the end?” “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.”
