The Shoes Of The Fisherman
The Shoes of the Fisherman may refer to: * ''The Shoes of the Fisherman'' (novel), a 1963 novel by the writer Morris West * ''The Shoes of the Fisherman'' (film), a 1968 film based on the novel {{disambiguation ...
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The Shoes Of The Fisherman (novel)
''The Shoes of the Fisherman'' is a novel by the Australian writer Morris West first published in 1963. The novel concerns the election of a Ukrainian pope, and is a dissection of Vatican politics.William H. Honan"Morris West, Popular Novelist Focusing on Faith, Dies at 83" ''The New York Times'', 12 October 1999 The protagonist, Kiril Pavlovich Lakota, appointed a cardinal ''in pectore'' by the previous pope, was inspired by the lives of two Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, Ukrainian Catholic bishops: Cardinal Josyf Slipyj and Bishop Hryhorij Lakota. Slipyj was released by Nikita Khrushchev's administration from a Siberian Gulag in 1963, the year of the novel's publication, after political pressure from Pope John XXIII and United States President John F. Kennedy. Slipyj arrived in Rome in time to participate in the Second Vatican Council. Lakota died in 1950 in a Soviet Gulag. A sub-plot deals with Kiril's relationship with a controversial theologian and scientist, Father Tele ...
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