CONCLAVE by Greg Tobin - FIRST EDITION BOOK

"Conclave follows the life and career of an American Catholic priest, Timothy John Mulrennan, from his youth and early priesthood through the crises that have beset the Church and its faithful around the world for the past forty years. He experiences firsthand the tumultuous events and forces that have shaped our time: the Second Vatican Council, the Vietnam War, racial unrest in America's cities, celibacy and the sexuality of priests, Communism's demise, conspiracies and assassinations, and the dark forces of religious reaction that want to turn back the clock.... He also experiences the shattering consequences of love between a man and a woman, which changes him forever." A respected voice of compassion with a reputation among bishops and laity as a skilled pastoral administrator, Father Mulrennan has nevertheless attracted his share of enemies, men who oppose his views and seek to destroy him by exposing the sins of his past. But his unshakable faith in God and his fellow man will prevail - if he is not defeated in the struggle for the very soul of the oldest and largest Christian body in the world.