Where the Vatican is concerned, fact is as thrilling and mysterious as fictionIn Janet Tavakoli's murder mystery, Archangels: Rise of the Jesuits, the pope stepped aside, and for the first time, a Jesuit ruled the Vatican. Three months later, Pope Benedict XVI shocked Catholics when he became the first pope in seven centuries to willingly resign. Then, for the first time in the history of the Catholic Church, a Jesuit was elected pope. Pope Francis has more surprises in store for the Roman Catholic Church.Rise of the Jesuits Companion is a short non-fiction chronicle of life-imitating-art events that occurred just after the novel's publication. Tavakoli also answers readers' questions about fact and fiction, murders, Mafia, missing money, sex, suicides, bribes, the new pope, Ignatius of Loyola, the Examen, the wealth of the Roman Catholic Church, Mary's age, memory arts, mind reading, hypnosis, autosuggestion, the "royal we," confession, and the truth about "turning the other cheek."5,500 words not including front matter and endnotes (7,700 words total).