The Keys of Power
Subtitle: Scandal, Secrets, and the Strange History of the Papacy
Publisher: Constantinople Press
Published: 2025
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 50
ISBN-13: 9798281823166
First sentence: A cold wind cut through the Eternal City. By the time the crowds reached the Basilica of St. John Lateran, the rumors had outpaced the carriages: a trial would be held, but the defendant would be... dead.
Table of contents: title: Preface	vi; title: 1	Chapter 1: The Pope Who Put a Corpse on Trial	Pg.1; title: 2	Chapter 2: The Pornocracy: When Women Ran the Papacy	Pg.5; title: 3	Chapter 3: The Pope Who Bought the Throne	Pg.9; title: 4	Chapter 4: The Man Who Never Wanted to Be Pope	Pg.14; title: 5	Chapter 5: Murder in the Chapel: The Short Reign of John Paul I	Pg.19; title: 6	Chapter 6: The Last Great Papal Conspiracies	Pg.24; title: 7	Chapter 7: The Wildest Conclave in History	Pg.29; title: 8	Chapter 8: Saints, Sinners, and the Race for the Next Pope	Pg.35; title: 9	Epilogue: Why the Papacy Still Captivates the World	Pg.41