St. Gallen Mafia - Julia Meloni

There is a somewhat obscure 8th century Irish Catholic Saint named Saint Gall who during the course of his life founded an Abby and Monastery in Switzerland, in a town now called St. Gallen which today is a Unesco World Heritage Site. It is said that near the end of his life, a bear became St. Gall’s only friend. The bear, it is said, brought him wood for his fire. 

To this day, the Abbey still stands in the town of St. Gallen Switzerland.The image of a bear is on its Coat of arms. St. Gallen Mafia, Exposing the secret reformist Group within the Church,  is the title of an intriguing, challenging and thought provoking book by Julia Meloni. She meticulously pieces together documented events and writings, surrounding power struggles within the Roman Catholic Church leading up too, and after the death of Saint Pope John Paul the second. 

For a non Catholic it reads like a factual thriller and for the Catholic the book could feel more dire and be seen as the beginnings of the complete takedown of 2000 years of Catholic Tradition.