Assassinating Pope Francis

Assassinating Pope Francis is the fourth book in the Sister Mary Bad Habit Adventure series. Sister Mary's has a vision of two powerful beasts attacking the Catholic Church. She identifies one as the United States government. The other is a group of ultra-conservative Catholic Cardinals, the Salvatores Ecclesiae (Saviors of the Church) who want to replace Pope Francis with a Pope that will take the Church back to the Council of Trent. Our young nun joins forces with a handsome captain of the Swiss Guard. Together they explore the conspirators' options for killing Pope Francis - Sniper shot, Poison, Bomb and more. At the same time the U.S. government imposes regulations to tax both the Church's property and its donations. Sister Mary works with Pope Francis to stop this attempt to destroy the Catholic Church in America. Through her quick thinking Sister Mary figures out the conspirators' plans to assassinate the Pope. The question, of course, is can she stop them in time. You have to read the book to find out, but as a clue - Have you ever visited the Necropolis (City of the Dead) beneath Saint Peter's Basilica? History is woven through the story. Included are plans of the basilica. Other Sister Mary Bad Habit Adventures: Stop the Traffick: Sister Mary infiltrates a human trafficking cartel by allowing herself to be trafficked Liberating Theology: Sister Mary travels to South America to take on an oppressive dictator and his cocaine lord partner. In Search of Noah's Art: While looking for religious artifacts stolen by the Nazis during World War II Sister Mary uncovers a plot by Neo-Nazi fanatics to use gene splicing to infect the Jewish people with terrible diseases.

George Patterson, OCP, a Catholic layperson, has served Church in many areas of ministry including lector, extraordinary minister, faith formation teacher, and participation in the formation of a new Catholic Church. Mr. Patterson completed a four year Lay Pastoral Ministry Program in 2002. He is especially involved in social justice and faith formation. Reading, especially history and theology have been his passions. It is from these passions and his love of the Catholic Church that the Sister Mary Bad Habit Adventure series emerged. Each of these novels, grounded in Catholic theology, has a social justice theme woven through the plot. In the secular world George Patterson worked as a banker writing technical papers and teaching appraisal classes for over thirty years. He is now retired and lives with his wife, Mary, in Davenport Florida where and are members of Corpus Christi Catholic Community in Celebration. They enjoy traveling and playing with grandchildren and, of course thinking up new adventures for Sister Mary.