...l chapel next to his private quarters. The dark chapel was dimly lit by a row of flickering votive candles that cast a soothing splay of shadows acr... ...fix as he closed his eyes and began to recite out-loud the Five Holy Mysteries of the Rosary. His nightly reverie, before bed, calmed him and conne... ...verie, before bed, calmed him and connected his soul to the sublime obedience of God. During these moments of prayer, he put the chaos of his Office ... ...running the Vatican, the spiritual responsibility of guiding over one-billion Catholics in the area of faith and morals. This was his time to commune... ... is on the warpath again. I heard him shouting up and down the halls that the American Bishops were trying to rewrite Church Doctrine again.” Ignor... ... 8 J.Cross/Artemis newspapers ran bold headlines declaring the end of the Catholic Church as the world knew it. Cardinal Berini was furious, and... ...d American Cardinal, but that he was of Jewish decent who had been adopted by Catholic parents: the Lira dropped, the Italian Stock Market almost co... ... he would later use to his own advantage. During the day he attended Colombia University majoring in Political Science, and at night he hung out in t... ... A small, dingy hangout that served greasy hamburgers and beer to mostly University students that felt like slumming, and to a few professors w...

...The Pope receives a vision that includes the names of four men: a U.S. Senator, a covert military intelligence agent, a priest from a small parish, and the head of the Italian mafia. These men form an alliance to eliminate the drug cartels of the world to save the children of...

...Pope Francis lithely entered into the small chapel next to his private quarters. The dark chapel was dimly lit by a row of flickering votive candles that cast a soothing splay of shadows across the ancient altar. The Pope knelt his thin, angular body before it; his white cassock cascaded across the red, soft cushion. He gently entwined the eb...