Father Christopher Hart, a young New York priest and classic film buff, is unwittingly drafted by the mob to hear the confession of a man slated for execution. Playing a key role in the White Death—a mafia ritual in which a person condemned to death is allowed to confess his sins before he’s killed – […]
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The young tramp in his tattered clothes looking on his family home from a distance, gathering courage to advance, preparing his little speech. Acid washes over his stomach as he imagines his father’s angry face, his shouts, his rejection. Little does he know, his father looks out the second story window and sees him in
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“The unique advantage of fiction,” says Fr. Michael Brisson, LC, author of Death in Black and White, “is that you can plumb the depths of human experience in a way that allows the reader to grapple with issues freely, if you do it right, without feeling lectured to or cajoled.” Art can be a tremendously
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