I Confess
Morrow, Melvyn When I became pope, almost the first word the Curia taught me was 'ricatto'-blackmail."
- Pope John XXIV
If there's faith, corruption, ambition, political backstabbing, and sex, it must be the Vatican. The diaries of an Australian cardinal who has, through extraordinary circumstances, become pope reveal the inner workings of the Vatican and-when he realizes his tenure may be short and begins enacting sweeping reforms-the centuries-old syste...