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This is a powerful little book. It shows the best and worst of dogma, as well as the cowardice and bravery of being human and living up to a standard, whatever that standard may be.
The unnamed Whisky Priest is everything good and bad the human race. He's flawed, full of guilt & sin and still he struggles to do right and find his way. He holds mass and confessions, absolving others of guilt and sin.....but there's no one to absolve his guilt & sin. He will suffer always. Yet, he faces himself an ...more
The unnamed Whisky Priest is everything good and bad the human race. He's flawed, full of guilt & sin and still he struggles to do right and find his way. He holds mass and confessions, absolving others of guilt and sin.....but there's no one to absolve his guilt & sin. He will suffer always. Yet, he faces himself an ...more
I've just finish this on audio. I'm extremely glad I used audio, because it means that the parts of it that I found long winded I wasn't able to speed up through. It meant I had to take it at a steady pace, and I think the book really benefited from this. It was also very interesting to learn about the situation in Mexico that the book was based on. Andrew Sachs was a fantastic narrator . Because of him I've given the book four stars, without I would probably have given it three. It's definitely
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This is a powerful novel about grace, mercy, faith and suffering. Set in rural southern Mexico in the early 1930s, a time and place when Communist forces have shuttered all Catholic churches, outlawed religious practices and forced all the priests to renounce their ministry or face execution, one priest remains. He is far from the picture of traditional piety. He carries an unconfessed mortal sin for which he is not fully repentant. He is a coward, allowing others to be arrested and killed for h
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