Hubert Wolf is the author of Pope and Devil and a professor of religious history at the University of Münster. He was awarded the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize in 2003, the Communicator Prize, and the Gutenberg Prize. He was ordained to the priesthood in 1985, and in 1992 he became a professor at the Goethe University Frankfurt.
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In 1858, a German princess who had been recently inducted into the convent of Sant'Ambrogio in Rome wrote a frantic letter to her cousin, a confidant of the Pope, claiming that she was being abused and that she feared for her life. What the subsequent inv... SEE MORE