The Making Of A Pope

The Making of a PopeIt was the year of the three Popes, a year of shattering changes in the papacy. The cardinals assembled in August, took a big gamble and won, more spectacularly, perhaps, than they had expected. Then death wiped out the September smile and the cardinals went back and took an even bigger gamble. At the present moment, they seem to have won that one, too.Cardinals are not usually high-stake gamblers.Rereading my notes from the years of research before August 1978, I can trace t...