Plot Summary
On his eighty-first birthday, retired gay writer Kenneth Toomey is asked by the Archbishop of Malta to assist in the process of canonization of Carlo Campanati, the late Pope Gregory XVII, and his brother-in-law. Toomey subsequently works on his memoirs, which span the major part of the 20th century.
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