The Year of Two Popes

This is a facscinating article.  (Alas, you'll have to be a subscriber to access it online.  Or you can buy the issue.)  The author, Paul Elie, is the author of the acclaimed book about Flannery O'Connor, Thomas Merton, Dorothy Day, and Walker Percy: The Life You Save May Be Your Own:  An American Pilgrimage (Farrar, Straus & Giroux 2003).

The Atlantic Monthly | January/February 2006   

The Year of Two Popes

      How Joseph Ratzinger stepped into the shoes of John Paul II—and what it means for the Catholic Church