A review by clare_tan_wenhui
The Pope: Francis, Benedict, and the Decision That Shook the World by Anthony McCarten

3.0

Non-fiction such as is interesting sometimes not in merely stating what transpired, but more in speculating the agendas and motivations of what is not spelled out. While it is very easy for us to be like the author to detail countless factual instances, accounts of these two men, to justify his own suggestion of what the Catholic church needs to do going forward, even the author grudgingly concedes that the two protagonists must have reached a certain implicit mutual agreement of sorts. Just as how the disciples quarreled at the table of the supper, dispersed into hiding for the next three days, Christ's resurrection eventually brought them back together again, to form the church as it is today. These differences have persisted and will rear its head cyclically, but the thin thread of mutual understanding and unity still holding supposedly irreconcilable standpoints together, is proof of the existence of the divine at work, no matter what troubled times.