Vatican Wealth and a Pope’s Pipe Dreams is an allegory. The Holy Father is analogous to the fictional character of Don Quixote, and his Executive Archbishop compares easily to Sancho Panza.

 Instead of tilting at windmills as in The Man from La Mancha, the Pope and Archbishop pursue their shared vision of global peace in pursuit of their impossible dream.

 The book is an envisioning of strategic dreams that have inspired and filled the author’s heart with possibilities for many years.

 The story is set in the Vatican and uses the Church subtly and respectfully.

Vatican Wealth and a Pope’s Pipe Dreams is a light-hearted, witty and provocative book. At other times, the story is as complex as the subject matter itself. In Pipe Dreams, Getz is brilliant in the way he compels the reader to enter the dialogue as if you are there while decisions of the world are weighed. Conceptualized decades ago, the plot is as fresh as today's headlines.

Born in Philadelphia, Monsignor Robert L. Getz served and currently lives in New Mexico. He is the Pastor Emeritus of the Basilica of San Albino.

Monsignor Getz is an educator, photojournalist, a spiritual leader, an author, civic leader and a world traveler.

 Monsignor Getz is the author of the non-fiction, Unique Charism of Diocesan Priests Spirituality and is currently at work writing Reflections of my Monastic Heart, a work which follows a special bond of brotherhood from his days at the Abbey of Gethsemani where he worked with Fr. Louis, Thomas Merton, and his good friend Brother Mathew, Doc McGunigle.