FROM THE PUBLISHER:
According to the prophecies of St. Malachy, only two popes remain before the Holy Church will go through an Apocalypse. In this controversial and definitive study Hogue examines St. Malachy and other gifted saints, popes, monks, and nuns who have been responsible for a covert tradition of prophecy that the Vatican has never officially acknowledged. The Last Pope is a unique prophetic examination of papal history--past and future.

SYNOPSIS
In 1139 St. Malachy set out from Ireland on a pilgrimage to Rome. On sighting the Eternal City, he fell to the ground and murmured cryptic Latin phrases, each signifying the future destiny of the Popes. For 400 years, the manuscript was locked in the labyrinth of the Vatican. Rediscoverd in 1595, it was rejected by the Church authorities as fraudulent but the conents of the prophecies remain chillingly accurate -- 90% have come true!

St. Malachy prophesied the future of the Roman Catholic Church and predicted the fates of the Popes until Judgment Day. After John Paul II only two Popes remain...will this forbidding prophetic coda of a Catholic apocalypse be fulfilled?