{"product_id":"the-power-and-the-glory","title":"The Power and the Glory","description":"\u003cp\u003eBy Graham Greene\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003e“\u003ci\u003eDo you think God wants you to stay\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eand die—a whisky priest like you?\u003c\/i\u003e”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Power and the Glory Green Was My Valley \u003c\/b\u003eis the story of a man on the run—and not just any man, but a Catholic priest.\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p2\"\u003eIn 1930s Mexico, the government continues its brutal persecution of the Catholic Church, forbidding the Mass and sacraments, and executing any priest who defies this order.\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p2\"\u003eFor the man on the run, the defiance, the close escapes, the courage to die—it all comes from weakness, not strength. He knows he is a sorry excuse for a priest—the people have a word for his kind: “a whisky priest”—and he has more to show for sin and scandal than sanctity.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p2\"\u003eNow hard on his heels is an unrelenting hunter: an unnamed official who has shot or subverted every single priest in his state and who will not rest until his final prey \u003cbr\u003eis brought to bay.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p2\"\u003eOn the run, the whisky priest finds opportunity to bring Christ to the people—not just in the sacraments, and unworthily at that, but also in himself, by his own fumbling sacrifices and clumsy attempts at cooperating with divine grace, all the way to the bitter but glorious end of realizing that there is only one thing that counted: \u003ci\u003eto be a saint.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003eFirst published in 1940,\u003ci\u003e The Power and the Glory \u003c\/i\u003ehonors and illuminates the extraordinary mystery of love. Through his “whisky priest” and his world, Greene has refuted the absurdity of evil with the paradox of the cross—the instrument of that mysterious Love which, in the words of François Mauriac, “seizes miserable man at the very depths of his ridiculous misery and his derisory shame, and makes of him a saint and a martyr.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eGraham Greene \u003c\/b\u003e(1904–1991) was an English writer and novelist and one of the most distinguished authors of the twentieth century. Averse to being called a “Catholic” novelist, he still achieved his best work in his novels with Catholic themes—foremost among them \u003ci\u003eThe Power and the Glory\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Heart of the Matter\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe End of the Affair\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"\u003e* * *\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHardcover:\u003c\/strong\u003e 216pp., with ribbon\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"\u003eISBN: \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e978-1685954840\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cluny Media","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48957755228379,"sku":"978-1685954840","price":32.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0458\/2329\/5645\/files\/ProductImages_5.5x8.5--15608.jpg?v=1783525148","url":"https:\/\/clunymedia.com\/products\/the-power-and-the-glory","provider":"Cluny Media","version":"1.0","type":"link"}