Chapter 9Try to keep your soul always in peace and quiet, always ready for whatever our Lord may wish to work in you. It is certainly a higher virtue of the soul, and a greater grace, to be able to enjoy the Lord in different times and different places than in only one.
—Saint Ignatius of Loyola
Late Spring 2018
Vatican City
Nine eighteen p.m. The air cool, the night sky clear, the Vatican is quiet, devoid of the tourists that swarm the piazzas during the day. A priest dressed in his black cassock steps out of the Domus Sanctae Marthae, where a Swiss Guard takes him down the small road between the Palazzo della Canonica and the Campo Santo Teutonico. From afar, it would seem he is being escorted for his security, but up close, the two are jovial, seemingly old friends. But this simple
