ECUMENICAL DEATH
ISBN: 1-4134-8474-3 (Trade Paperback)
ISBN: 1-4134-8475-1 (Hardback)
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A Christmas
message from Pope John XX111 sets the tone for this very controversial novel.
“No peace will have solid foundations unless hearts nourish the sentiment of
brotherhood.”
The author has drawn from his experience working with church groups and produced
another of his novels that are realism bent into fiction.
“The greatest enemy of Christianity,” said philosopher Mortimer Adler, “is man’s
self-confidence. The more power he has, the less religious he becomes.”
This book emphasizes that truism.
In the spirit of Pope John’s Vatican II, a local Ecumenical Council is formed to
build low cost housing in a prosperous white suburb. The inside bickering,
the rage and the demonstrations that effort produces can only be told with such
believability by someone who has lived it. After three people die in the
violence, an older policeman says to a rookie cop, “Towns change, but people
never do kid, you have it all before you.”
When Brother Gabrial Edwards of the Holy Passionate Order leaves the priesthood
and tells his bride, “Pope John Paul I was embalmed only hours after his death.
Many believe it was to cover up the cause of death. He only served thirty-three
days as Pope and was quickly replaced by a man more politician than priest,”
they both express their personal concern about church loyalty.
This must-read,
controversial book is a murder mystery that makes an important statement.
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