September 30, 2003
PAPAL PUSHER
With the Pope's health ebbing, thoughts of who will replace him
inevitably arise. Christopher Buckley published a short story on this
topic in The Atlantic
Monthly last April. In it, Rick Reynard--prot?g? of uber PR
man Nick Naylor, the protagonist of
href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-
/0060976624/qid=1064955511/sr=8-1/ref=sr_8_1/103-6915268-
2251069?v=glance&s=books&n=507846">Thank You for Smoking--is
hired by a billionaire to orchestrate a campaign to make sure the next
elected Pope is an American. Although the American Church is somewhat
tarnished by recent sex scandals and such lobbying is expressly
forbidden, Reynard cannot possibly turn down the huge sums of money his
billionaire client is willing to pay. Buckley is as funny as ever in
"We
Have a Pope!"
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