Pope Patrick - Hardcover

Rosa, Peter; De Rosa, Peter

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0385485484 ISBN 13: 9780385485487

Verlag: Doubleday, 1997

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Chosen to become the next pope in 2009, kindly Irish cardinal Brian O'Flynn turns the Vatican upside down when he addresses such precarious issues as contraception and celibacy in the clergy, assisted by faithful Labrador Charley. 20,000 first printing. $20,000 ad/promo.

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2009. America has its first Catholic president since Kennedy. The planet's other superpower is the Federation of Islamic Republics, stretching from Morocco to Pakistan. And in Rome, the aging Polish Pope, obstinate and combative to the end, has died, and the conclave of cardinals must choose a successor. After a great deal of argument and debate, they choose the least controversial candidate, the least political, the one least likely to upset the Vatican status quo--Brian O'Flynn, a kindly old Irish priest who reads Yeats and publishes obscure academic theses. At the moment of his election, a 300-pound ornamental pillar falls on his head.<br><br><br><br>Then all hell breaks loose.<br><br><br><br><i>Pope Patrick</i> is the riotous story of a mild-mannered country cardinal who--through a democratic election, a twist of fate, and a little help from his golden Lab, Charley--turns the Vatican upside down and throws the industrial world into chaos. He deals once and for all wit

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• Verlag: Doubleday
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1997
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0385485484
• ISBN 13: 9780385485487
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 349
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