In the Vatican's closet

For four years, Frédéric Martel explored the inner workings of the Vatican and conducted fieldwork in over thirty countries. He interviewed dozens of cardinals and met with hundreds of bishops and priests. This book reveals the hidden face of the Church: a system built from the smallest seminaries up to the Vatican, based simultaneously on a hidden homosexual life and the most radical homophobia. The Church's schizophrenia is unfathomable: the more homophobic a prelate is in public, the more likely they are to be homosexual in private. "Behind rigidity there is always something hidden: in many cases, a double life." By uttering these words, Pope Francis made public a secret that this dizzying investigation explores for the first time in great detail.