"This novel is the story of a young Mexican boy from a well-to-do family in Sonora Mexico who moves to Spain for his education and becomes a Jesuit Priest. He is a capable athlete (tennis player) and an accomplished pianist and organist. He earns a PhD and is recruited into the Vatican Diplomatic Corps where he befriends two future popes. A skilled researcher and writer, with a strong penchant for international relations and diplomacy, he serves as an unofficial liaison with an American diplomat during the Paris Peace talks of 1919. Between the wars, he is selected by Pope Pius XI and the Jesuit Superior General to become part of a mission to review the Jesuit South Latin American Assistancy. He befriends a wealthy and influential French aristocratic woman married to a French diplomat and they become close friends and eventually collaborators in developing underground activities during the rise of Fascism in Italy, Germany and Spain. The protagonist writes several books on the international relations of the Catholic Church, and becomes a highly regarded pianist and organist who plays recitals in Europe, and the United States. He becomes a covert agent for the Jesuit Superior General and Popes Pius XI and XII. In a secret partnership with the Aristocratic woman in Paris he helps construct an underground group to help people in Europe escape the Nazis and the Gestapo. He becomes a secret liaison between the Vatican, the Jesuit Curia, and American military intelligence. He is promoted to Monsignor, then to the rank of Bishop. After the end of WW2 he is elevated to the rank of cardinal"--,Provided by publisher.