From the prize-winning screenwriter of The Theory of Everything and Darkest Hour The Two Popes
is a fascinating revealing and gripping tale of two very different men whose destinies
converge with each other - they both live in the Vatican - and the wider world.On 28 February
2013 a 600-year-old tradition was shattered: the conservative Pope Benedict XVI made a
startling announcement. He would resign. Reeling from the news the College of Cardinals rushed
to Rome to congregate in the Sistine Chapel to pick his successor. Their unlikely choice?
Francis the first non-European pope in 1 200 years a one time tango club bouncer a
passionate football fan and a man with the common touch.How did these two men become two of the
most powerful people on Earth?What's it like to be the Pope?What does the future hold for the
Catholic Church and its 1 billion followers?The Two Popes is a dual biography that masterfully
combines these two popes' lives into one gripping narrative. From Benedict and Francis'
experiences of war in their homelands - when they were still Joseph and Jorge - and the sexual
abuse scandal that continues to rock the Church to its foundations to the intrigue and the
occasional comedy of life in the Vatican The Pope glitters with the darker and the lighter
details of life inside one of the world's most opaque but significant institutions.
