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The Shoes of the Fisherman
A Ukrainian bishop freed after twenty years in a Soviet gulag is unexpectedly elevated to the papacy, and must confront a world on the brink of nuclear war. A stately, prescient religious-political drama.
Why it’s here
A Vatican and Cold War drama about the election and papacy of a fictional pope.