(Maike Hickson) The American scholar and columnist Julia Meloni has just published her long-awaited, excellent, and deeply researched history of the Sankt Gallen Mafia, a group of progressive bishops regularly meeting in Switzerland and plotting to further revolutionize the Catholic Church. The Sankt Gallen Mafia: Exposing the Secret Reformist Group Within the Church tells us much about the machinations of these leftist bishops and cardinals, their agenda, and even their idea that the Church needed a new “Francis” long before Pope Francis was elected. But the captivating book tells us also more about Pope Benedict XVI’s own possible entanglement with this group.