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...year of his pontificate has slowly emerged from the shadow of his great predecessors with a style and program all his own. John was an intuitive, charismatic prophet who threw open the windows and doors of the church to let in fresh air without worrying about?or even fully understanding???the consequences. By contrast, Paul is a detached and painstakingly analytical technician who has left the windows open?but who keeps checking the thermometer lest any cold drafts seep in. Pius was one of Catholicism's great teachers, whose irrepressible flow of decisive allocutions ranged learnedly from astronomy to midwifery...
...Author lives in South Africa, at the centre of the scenes she depicts. She writes with truth and understanding???two qualities which have made her novels (God's Stepchildren, Mary Glenn) interesting, and which make this, a broader work, not only interesting but important...