As the College of Cardinals meets to choose the next pope...there is serious dissension in the ranks about whom should be the next spiritual leader of the world's one billion Roman Catholics.Cardinal Cronin (Chicago) is backing the rather liberal Archbishop of Valenda. Opposing him is the Corpus Christi Institute, a secret ultraconservative Catholic Society. While the clergy battle it out,sparks fly between Dinny and Patty as they rediscover each other.The situation heats up when Dinny unearths a new Vatican investment scandal and Cronin collapes....Recommended.