Explosive in both its pace and its revelations, The Third Secret is a remarkable international thriller. Bestselling author Steve Berry tackles some of the most controversial ideas of our time in a breakneck journey through the history of the Church and the future of religion.
Fatima, Portugal, 1917: The Virgin Mary appears to three peasant children, sharing with them three secrets, two of which are soon revealed to the world. The third secret...

Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon discovers evidence of the resurgence of the most powerful underground organization in history, the Illuminati. Upon learning of an unstoppable terrorist act against the Vatican, Langdon travels to Rome and joins forces with Italian scientist Vittoria Vetra and together they will follow the 400-year-old Path of Illumination that leads to the Vatican's only chance for survival.

For a thousand years her existence has been denied. She is the legend that will not diePope Joan, the ninth-century woman who disguised herself as a man and rose to become the only female ever to sit on the throne of St. Peter. Brilliant and talented, young Joan rebels against medieval social strictures forbidding women to learn. When her brother is brutally killed during a Viking attack, Joan takes up his cloakand his identityand...

This engrossing book, from a professor of the history of Christianity at Cambridge, encompasses the extraordinary story of the papacy, from its beginnings to the present day, as empires rose and fell around it. This new edition covers the unprecedented resignation of Benedict XVI, and the historic election of the first Argentinian pope.

As a young and outspoken priest, Luca Rossini was brutally tortured in an Argentine military prison, and then nursed back to health by the beautiful Isabel. Exiled to Rome to avoid scandal, Rossini becomes a cardinal and the pope's confidante. He is admired and feared by his colleagues, for he understands the Church, speaks frankly and knows how to present his ancient faith to the media. When the pope becomes gravely ill and a successor must be chosen,...

"The story of a stray cat that was born on the Via della Conciliazione in Rome. She is adopted by the Pope, and she then runs the Vatican from museum to floorboard."--

"Cuando en diciembre de 2012 Benedicto XVI comunicó que renunciaba al papado, pocos sospechaban que ese día cambiaría el curso de la Historia. Por primera vez era elegido Sumo Pontí̀fice un jesuita que además era argentino y que, por si fuera poco, mostraba una actitud muy diferente a la de sus sucesores. Un aire nuevo que lo convertiría en el primer Papa en muchos años que interesaría tanto a cristianos como a laicos. ¿Qué piensa? ¿Qué...

"The Pope's cat, Margaret, learns about Holy Week as the pope explains each day from Maundy Thursday to Easter. The pope introduces Margaret to the Sistine Chapel, where they pray together"--

"On March 19, 2013, Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio of Argentina became Pope Francis, the 266th Pope of the Catholic Church. His election to the papacy was notable in many ways. He became the first pope from the Americas, the first pope from the Southern Hemisphere, the first non-European pope in more than 1,200 years, the first Jesuit pope, and the first pope to choose the name Francis. Pope Francis was not the person that most people expected to...