“The scandal that Wolf discovered in a secret Vatican archive, in 1999, would have left a true-crime writer salivating. has an enviable handle on the palace intrigues motivating all the players.” - Salon juicy history with a raft of serious (yet accessible) research into the intricacies of Vatican bureaucracy, the underlying philosophical disputes among various key Roman Catholic figures, and the complex political landscape of mid-nineteenth century Italy.” - The Boston Globe The following year, German historian Hubert Wolf found something that, as they say on the Internet, will blow your mind.” -Lev Grossman, Time “In 1998, Pope John Paul II opened the secret archives of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith-better known to you as the Inquisition-to outside researchers. It’s also a very serious study of how the church deals with scandal.” - The Washington Post much more than a true-crime thriller about murderous lesbian nuns.
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