Still, the book also offers useful information that brings out the complex realities of the Catholic hierarchy and the papacy's role in world affairs. Set amid the glamour and bravado of 1980s Formula 1, The Power and the Glory tells the story of a rivalry unsurpassed in motor-racing history. Yallop has done exhaustive research for this project, but his journalistic objectivity is sometimes placed aside-clearly no fan of John Paul II, he posits quasiconspiracy theories about Vatican coverups and behind-the-scenes backstabbing. The author seems to enjoy shooting holes in John Paul II's character, tarnishing many of the embellished stories that the pope's fans hold dear. Yallop paints a portrait of a pope who centralized authority as much as possible, quashed any sign of disobedience or rebellion within the Catholic Church and, while lambasting Catholics for getting involved in politics, was just as much a political figure as a religious one. According to investigative journalist Yallop, this is hardly the whole story about the late pontiff.

He is credited with helping bring down communism, for popularizing the Solidarity movement in Poland and for advancing the devotion of the Virgin Mary, who he claimed interceded to save him from an assassination attempt in the early 1980s. Named by Time magazine as one of the hundred best English-language novels written since 1923, The Power and the Glory is “a violent, raw” work on “suffering, strained faith, and ultimate redemption” ( The Atlantic).Pope John Paul II was one of the most visible and influential figures of the late 20th century. But it’s also his duty-and possibly his salvation. And like all Greene’s books, the plot revolves around basic human questions of good and evil and the choices his characters make under challenging conditions. Like all his work, the writing is lyrical and poignant. When a peasant begs him to return to Tabasco to hear the confessions of a dying man, the whisky priest knows it’s a trap. Both in theme and style Power and Glory delivers. Joseph 4. Joseph 4.27 37 Ratings 3 Reviews published 1978 3 editions It began before the Civil War with Joel Trevor, se Want to Read Rate it: Book 2 The power by Ronald S. Too modest to be a martyr, too stubborn to follow the law, and too craven to take a bullet, he now travels as one of the hunted-attending, in secret, to the spiritual needs of the faithful. Book 1 The Kingdom: The Saga Of The Uncrowned Royalt Of Texas by Ronald S. He’s known only as the “whisky priest.” Beset by heretical vices, guilt, and an immoral past, he’s torn between self-destruction and self-preservation. As churches are razed, icons are banned, and the price of devotion is execution, an unnamed member of the clergy flees. In the Mexican state of Tabasco in the 1930s, all vestiges of Catholicism are being outlawed by the government. This prize-winning novel of a fugitive priest in Mexico is quite simply “Graham Greene’s masterpiece” (John Updike, The New York Review of Books).

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