From a bestselling author with unprecedented access to Pope Francis, an investigative look at the recent financial scandals at the highest levels of the Vatican
A veritable war is waging in the Church: on one side, there is Pope Francis’s strong message for one church of the poor and all; on the other, there is the old Curia with its endless enemies, and the old and new lobbies struggling to preserve their not-so-Christian privileges.
The old guard do not back down, they are ready to use all means necessary to stay in control and continue the immoral way they conduct their business. They resist reforms sought by Pope Francis and seek to delegitimize their opponents, to isolate those who want to eliminate corruption. It’s a war that will determine the future of the church. And if he loses the battle against secular interests and blackmail, Pope Francis could resign, much like his predecessor. 
Based on confidential information―including top secret documents from inside the Vatican, and actual transcripts of Pope Francis’s admonishments to the papal court about the lack of financial oversight and responsibility―Merchants in the Temple illustrates all the undercover work conducted by the Pope since his election and shows the reader who his real enemies are. It reveals the instruments Francis is using to reform the Vatican and rid it, once and for all, of the overwhelming corruption traditionally encrusted in the Roman Catholic Church.
Merchants in the Temple is a startling book that will shock every reader. It’s a story worthy of a Dan Brown novel, with its electrifying details of the trickery and scheming against the papacy―except that it is real.

Merchants in the Temple: Inside Pope Francis's Secret Battle Against Corruption in the Vatican

Business & Money

Nuzzi, Gianluigi

International

St. Martin's: Griffin

From a bestselling author with unprecedented access to Pope Francis, an investigative look at the recent financial scandals at the highest levels of the VaticanA veritable war is waging in the Church: on one side, there is Pope Francis’s strong message for one church of the poor and all; on the other, there is the old Curia with its endless enemies, and the old and new lobbies struggling to preserve their not-so-Christian privileges.The old guard do not back down, they are ready to use all means necessary to stay in control and continue the immoral way they conduct their business. They resist reforms sought by Pope Francis and seek to delegitimize their opponents, to isolate those who want to eliminate corruption. It’s a war that will determine the future of the church. And if he loses the battle against secular interests and blackmail, Pope Francis could resign, much like his predecessor. Based on confidential information―including top secret documents from inside the Vatican, and actual transcripts of Pope Francis’s admonishments to the papal court about the lack of financial oversight and responsibility―Merchants in the Temple illustrates all the undercover work conducted by the Pope since his election and shows the reader who his real enemies are. It reveals the instruments Francis is using to reform the Vatican and rid it, once and for all, of the overwhelming corruption traditionally encrusted in the Roman Catholic Church.Merchants in the Temple is a startling book that will shock every reader. It’s a story worthy of a Dan Brown novel, with its electrifying details of the trickery and scheming against the papacy―except that it is real.

MacMillan Audio

More ruthless than the Mob, more powerful than the Camorra—a searing insider account of the Calabrian Mafia 
A massive bestseller in its native Italy, and a book that can justly be compared with Roberto Saviano's Gomorrah, Blood Ties is a terrifying account of the 'Ndrangheta's criminal activities over the last four decades. Originally from Calabria, this sinister organization has—like the Mafia in Sicily and the Camorra in Naples—a vicious hold over northern Italy and much of the rest of the country, too, a stranglehold that is growing every day. Told to the authors by an insider, Pippo di Bella, a "pentito," a former member of the gang now turned state's evidence, it reveals many hitherto unknown operations, as well as throwing new light on well-known cases from the past. It shows an organization which retains and strengthens its position through corruption, drug smuggling, gun running, violence, extortion, and kidnapping. Visceral, compelling, and terrifyingly readable, it paints a brutally vivid picture of the most dangerous and powerful of the Italian mafias, and demands to be read.

Blood Ties: The Calabrian Mafia

Biographies & Memoirs

Antonelli, Claudio

True Crime

Pan/Macmillan

Blood Ties

Pan.

Henry Holt and Co.

Sa Sainteté. Scandale au Vatican: les documents secrets de Benoît XVI

Politics & Social Sciences

Sociology

PRIVE

Metastasen: Ein Kronzeuge der 'Ndrangheta enthüllt die Geheimnisse des größten Familienunternehmens der Welt

Social Sciences

Ecowin

El periodista italiano Gianluigi Nuzzi hace pública la mayor filtración de documentos en la historia de la Santa Sede. Más de cien cartas privadas y comunicados confidenciales dirigidos al papa Benedicto XVI y a su secretario de Estado, Tarcisio Bertone, revelan los secretos de corrupción más oscuros del Vaticano: Espionaje y manipulación de información, encubrimientos y contubernios con la policía italiana; manejos financieros irregulares; la extraña desaparición de Emanuela Orlandi, de quien se ha rumorado que fue raptada para «fiestas sexuales»; los nexos entre la industria de la pornografía en Alemania con sacerdotes locales y el destape de diversos casos de pederastia que involucran a altos jerarcas católicos en Estados Unidos y México. Aunque el nuevo Papa ha declarado una vocación de verdad y transparencia, la Curia Romana está en alerta pues muchos ven estos escándalos como la decadencia de una de las instituciones religiosas con mayor número de feligreses en el mundo. Este es el sobrecogedor recuento.

Las cartas secretas de Benedicto XVI (Spanish Edition)

Religion & Spirituality

Planeta Publishing

Si los dos libros anteriores de Gianluigi Nuzzi, Vaticano S.A. y Las cartas secretas de Benedicto XVI, anticiparon algunos de los mayores escándalos en los que se ha visto envuelto el Vaticano en los últimos años —convirtiéndose en primera página de los periódicos más importantes del mundo—, este nuevo ensayo dará a conocer, a partir de la información confidencial a la que tiene acceso directo Nuzzi, los enemigos irreconciliables que el papa Francisco tiene dentro del Vaticano y los problemas que se está encontrando para erradicar la corrupción.

Vía crucis (Spanish Edition)

Literature & Fiction

Vaticano, S. A. (Spanish Edition)

Ediciones Martínez Roca

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