5/8/2023 0 Comments The power and the glory greene![]() ![]() In a home in the city where the lieutenant is based, a mother treasures a forbidden child’s book about a priest named Juan who was a hero, a priest who stood up to the pagan authorities in Mexico and, in the end, was shot by a firing squad. ![]() ![]() Over the course of several months, he shoots three. He holds the hostages in a jail in the main city of the state, and, when he wants to retaliate against the priest, he shoots a hostage. Now, a fervently anticlerical Army lieutenant is on his trail, and, when the officer finds that a village has been visited by the priest, he takes a hostage. Over the past year, he has celebrated Mass just four times and had heard maybe a hundred confessions. When caught, a fugitive priest is shot for treason.Īs Graham Greene’s 1940 novel The Power and the Glory, opens, this priest is the last one at large, offering the sacraments - baptism, confession, the Mass - to believers where he can find them and when they feel it’s safe to be with him. Others, like this one, have gone into hiding. Some have stayed and, under duress, have gotten married. It is the middle of the 20 th century, and the new Socialist government wants to stamp out superstition. Religious books are banned, and even well-to-do women find themselves in jail if they’re found with one. He is a priest who has been on the run for eight years in a state in Mexico where authorities have leveled all churches in an effort to root out Catholicism. ![]()
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