Now pursuing an active retirement in his hometown of Sydney, Australia, Edward Idris Cardinal Cassidy was president of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity and president of the Holy see's Committee for Religious Relations with the Jews during the papacy of John Paul II, after having served around the world as a Vatican diplomat before and after Vatican II.

Cardinal Cassidy's memoir provides an insider's account and a rare glimpse behind Vatican diplomacy, ecumenism, and interreligious dialogue as he reflects on a half-century serving the church around the world.