Cover of The Last Pope

The Last Pope

"Has drawn comparisons with The Shoes of the Fisherman and The DaVinci Code."

-Connecticut Post

In the tradition of the classic bestseller The Shoes of the Fisherman, this evocative and moving novel takes you deep inside the inner world of the Vatican and the American branch of the Holy See to dramatize the great moral issues dividing the Church.

Read more

The passing of humble and beloved Pope Gregory XVIII brings the Lords of the Church to the Basilica of St. Peter in Rome to meet in its secret recesses and elect a new pope. They find they must choose between a caring, but guilt-ridden, American cardinal (the very same young priest who made a heart-rending confession so many years ago) who would bring reforms to the Church, or a cardinal whose soul belongs to the Inquisition. At stake-the future of the Church itself.

Audience
adult
Length
medium · 320 pages

Click a tag to see books like this one that share it. Point at it (on a phone, tap it) for less of it instead.

Read it? Sign in to help tag it.

Liked The Last Pope? Here’s where I’d start.

These suit anyone who liked The Last Pope. Sign in and mark a few books for picks shaped around your own taste.

  1. Logos Shares historical fiction, religion, fiction
  2. Daughter of Ishmael: Promised Land, Broken Heart Shares historical fiction, religion
  3. In All Places Shares historical fiction, religion
  4. Lucifer's Son Shares historical fiction, religion

“If you want more of the same (historical fiction about religion), start with these.”

  1. The Revelator
  2. The heart of a lion
  3. Man of Nazareth
  4. Inside the Red Tent

“If it was the religion that hooked you, try one of these.”

  1. Labeling Lincoln
  2. Under Tiberius
  3. Nile Shadows (The Jerusalem Quartet, Volume 3)
  4. Judas My Brother

“These start from a similar idea, even if they go somewhere else with it.”

  1. The Shoes of the Fisherman
  2. An American Cardinal: The Biography of Cardinal Timothy Dolan
  3. The Rise of Benedict XVI: The Inside Story of How the Pope was Elected and Where He Will Take the Catholic Church
  4. Francis: Pope of a New World