Urban the Ninth

Urban the Ninth is a 1973 Novel by Scottish writer Bruce Marshall. It is the first novel of a three volume series. It was followed by Marx the First and concludes with Peter the Second.

Plot summary

A Catholic comic thriller – In 1990, Urban the Ninth takes over the papacy after Pope Marx I dies in an air crash. Urban IX has to face the Third Secret of Fatima and a mysterious woman: perhaps, Pope Marx's secret lover.
A major subplot concerns the efforts of a mother superior of a religious order to get the order's founder canonised.