In this volume Piotr Froment, Abbé Pierre Froment travels to Rome to publish his book. While he is reassured that it will be published, he learns and discovers Rome, ancient and modern, to times of Leo the XIIIth pope. As he discovers he finds faith, so well that when he visits pope himself, he cries and begs for forgiveness that he has done the book, condemning it.

We do learn that this book is extreme left wing dogma, and that it was in approval for new faith, and against believe,religion as in general, by wanting new faith alone. Its title was "new Rome" and pope suggested that as atonement Pierre will burn this book, saying to him that any priest in mad heist could witter it in an hour.

I like that tongue, flow of the plot. This book one of the healing ones, even though its just novel, the one that is surly taught in school, in some parts of the world at least.