The Power and the Glory

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In 1984 DavidYallop's In God's Name sold 6 millión copies worldwide, was on the NewYorkTimes bestseller list for 16 weeks, and changed the way the world looked at the Vatican; in 2006 Dávid Yallop returns to Romé with another explosive story: the untold history of the papacy ofjohn Paul II
Praise fdr In God's Name:
v "A thriller [Yallop] has surely proved that there is a <case to answer." —;Guardian
"An engrossing and disturbing book." —Economist
From the first moment of his papacy,
Karol Wojtyla sought political influence and a role on the world stage. At the dawn of the twenty-first century, he was a leader to millions of Catholics at a time of tremendous change. Promising a renewed church, he was the first true média Popé, alsó traveling around the world to preach his message to millions. And it is said that he was central in the fali of Soviet Eastern Europe, in particular his own homeland of Poland. Now, nearly two years after his death, there are already... Tovább

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In 1984 DavidYallop's In God's Name sold 6 millión copies worldwide, was on the NewYorkTimes bestseller list for 16 weeks, and changed the way the world looked at the Vatican; in 2006 Dávid Yallop returns to Romé with another explosive story: the untold history of the papacy ofjohn Paul II
Praise fdr In God's Name:
v "A thriller [Yallop] has surely proved that there is a <case to answer." —;Guardian
"An engrossing and disturbing book." —Economist
From the first moment of his papacy,
Karol Wojtyla sought political influence and a role on the world stage. At the dawn of the twenty-first century, he was a leader to millions of Catholics at a time of tremendous change. Promising a renewed church, he was the first true média Popé, alsó traveling around the world to preach his message to millions. And it is said that he was central in the fali of Soviet Eastern Europe, in particular his own homeland of Poland. Now, nearly two years after his death, there are already calls for his beatification. But is this the whole truth?
Exploding myths about the role Wojtyla played during and after World War II in Poland,Yallop goes on to examine the half-truths about John Paul II's long reign. A Vatican insider and one of our most efFective investigative journalists, the author raises a series of difficult questions. Buttressed by a wealth of newly uncovered information, his investigations rangé from the role of the Vatican in the fali of Communism to the ongoing mismanagement ofVatican fmances that allowed Roberto Calvi and others to continue to use the Vatican banks for money laundering, from the failure to address the child sexual abuse crisis and the rise of Opus Dei, to the myth of the "Holy Alliance" between the White House and the Vatican.
Including revelations from the CIA, the KGB, and the Vatican itself, The Power and the Glory is a bold and unflinching look at a man being fast-tracked to sainthood and his profound effect on a polarized institution. Vissza