Peter De Rosa Livres

The year is 2009. America has its first Catholic president since Kennedy. The planet's other superpower is the Federation of Islamic Republics, stretching from Morocco to Pakistan. And in Rome, the aging Polish Pope, obstinate and combative to the end, has died, and the conclave of cardinals must choose a successor. After a great deal of argument and debate, they choose the least controversial and least political candidate, the one least likely to upset the Vatican status quo - Brian O'Flynn, a kindly old Irish priest who reads Yeats and publishes obscure academic theses. At the moment of his election, a three-hundred-pound ornamental pillar falls on his head. Then all hell breaks loose. Pope Patrick is the riotous story of a mild-mannered country cardinal who - through a democratic election, a twist of fate, and a little help from his golden Lab, Charley - turns the Vatican upside down and throws the industrial world into chaos. He deals once and for all with the thorny issues of contraception, the celibacy of the clergy, and the infallibility of the Pope; sends the Dow Jones tumbling and the hopes of the downtrodden soaring - and in the process brings the world to the brink of catastrophe.

Mags and Julie are partners at Dream Weddings, catering for the over-the-top and sometimes downright bizarre requirements of Belfast's brides and grooms to be. They rub along well but are as different as chalk and cheese. Mags is married to the love of her life, has four kids and a complicated extended family. Julie is impossibly glamorous, and doesn't remotely believe in love or marriage. When Julie embarks on a life crisis, running away from her live-in lover and throwing herself in to a hair-raisingly sexy fling with Jay, it is Mags who is left to pick up the pieces. When Julie eventually comes back, she brings Jay with her, and that is where the real trouble starts. Add to the mix Dream Weddings' most high-profile celebrity clients yet, and the biggest, most ambitious wedding they have ever organised, and the fireworks really begin...

At the dawn of the Third Millennium, Peter de Rosa's international bestseller is the dramatic and terrible story of the papal abuse of power in the first two thousand years.

A woman describes the story of her affair with Eamonn Casey, who later becomes the Bishop of Galway, the birth of their son, and her years of hardship. Reprint.

Peter de Rosa, ein kritischer Katholik aus Irland, fordert in diesem Buch zum Umdenken in Glaubensfragen auf. Er plädiert dafür, daß die Gläubigen einen radikalen Bruch vollziehen mit der in Dogmen und Lehrmeinungen erstarrten römischen Kirche. Statt dessen sollten sie sich wieder auf die Mythen des Christentums besinnen und einlassen. "Vom Jesus-Mythos zu sprechen bedeutet nicht, Jesus abzuwerten oder die Tatsache zu bezweifeln, daß er gelebt, gelehrt, gelitten hat und auf Golgatha gestorben ist," sagt de Rosa. "Im Gegenteil: Der Jesus-Mythos ist die Spur eines wirklich Menschen."

Peter de Rosa plädiert Buch für eine Veränderung der katholischen Kirche von innen heraus. Er fordert den Vatikan auf, umzudenken und nicht länger an veralteten Dogmen festzuhalten, sondern sich aufgeschlossen mit den Problemen unserer Zeit, wie zum Beispiel dem der Überbevölkerung, auseinanderzusetzen.