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Author
Series
Publisher
Forge
Language
English
Description
Millions of Blackie Ryan fans will be thrilled with his return in this exciting novel of mystery and suspense. Bestselling novelist Andrew M. Greeley has captured the imagination of the mystery reading public with the improbable Bishop Blackie Ryan, who works for the aristocratic, haughty, sometimes arrogant but often slyly good-humored Sean Cardinal Cronin, the Archbishop of Chicago.
The Vatican has just assigned auxiliary Bishop Gus Quill to the...
2) Basilica
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c1998
Physical Desc
296 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Harcourt Brace & Co
Pub. Date
c1998
Physical Desc
375 p. : ill., 1 map ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Someone has hacked into the pope's personal computer-not to spy on the Vatican or to spread a virus, but to send an urgent plea for help: SAVE OUR LADY OF THE TEARS. The crumbling Baroque church in the heart of Seville is slated for demolition-and two of its defenders have suddenly died. Accidents? Or murders? And was the church itself somehow involved?
The Vatican promptly dispatches Father Lorenzo Quart, their worldly and enormously attractive...
5) Be near me
Author
Publisher
Harcourt, Inc
Pub. Date
c2006
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Physical Desc
305 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Always trust a stranger," said David's mother when he returned from Rome. "It's the people you know who let you down."
Half a life later, David is Father Anderton, a Catholic priest with a small parish in Scotland. He befriends Mark and Lisa, rebellious local teenagers who live in a world he barely understands. Their company stirs memories of earlier happiness-his days at a Catholic school in Yorkshire, the student revolt in 1960s Oxford, and a...
7) Three Marys
Author
Series
Cal Donovan volume 2
Publisher
Severn House Publishers
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
281 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Harvard Professor of religion and archaeology Cal Donovan has been summoned by Pope Celestine to investigate a seemingly impossible miracle. Three Catholic teeange girls, from different corners of the world, have fallen pregnant. All three girls have been proven to be virgins. Are they really all bearing the son of God? Before Cal has a chance to visit all three girls, one of the Marys disappears...and then another. As he struggles to uncover...
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
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Not just an ordinary priest but a priest/television superstar, idolized by the people of France, loved by everyone except, of course the French hierarchy, the church, state and the Paris television community.
The Archbishop of Paris, familiar with Bishop Blackie Ryan's impressive sleuthing skills, asks Blackie's boss, the Archbishop of Chicago Sean Cardinal Cronin, for help in finding this missing priest. As usual, Cardinal Cronin resolves the matter...
Author
Series
Publisher
Mo Keijuk Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
199 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Catholic priest in free fall, newly out of the closet and HIV+ From impulse--or inspiration--Joe Tierney, picks up and leaves his shattered life in the Midwest. He heads for what he hopes is a warm and welcoming gay society in Palm Springs. His friend Edward Brockton, an Episcopal priest he met in a clandestine support group for HIV+ clergy, has gotten him a maintenance job at an exclusive gay guest house in Warm Sands, Palm Springs. And Joe wants...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
419 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"'Under Palombo's skillful hand, the entangled world of the Borgias comes vividly to life, exposing the dark facets of class structure and the all-consuming greed that comes with ambition--and love." - Heather Webb, internationally bestselling author of Last Christmas in Paris and Meet Me in Monaco. During the sweltering Roman summer of 1492, Rodrigo Borgia has risen to power as pope. Rodrigo's eldest son Cesare, forced to follow his father into the...
Author
Series
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2002
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
255 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"See to it, Blackwood," says the Cardinal Archbishop of Chicago, and Blackie Ryan, the Cardinal's auxiliary bishop, doesn't exactly jump (he never jumps), rather he moseys down to Washington, D.C., where one of his friends, Jack Patrick McGurn, called "Machine Gun McGurn" by the media, has surprisingly just been elected president and needs his help.
Blackie's first confrontation is with Washington bureaucracy; the powers that be don't want to give...
Author
Publisher
iUniverse
Pub. Date
2011, 2009
Physical Desc
246 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Joe's mind raced. The clinic was in a neighboring county, and he'd dressed down. He'd worn jeans, dirty tennis shoes, and the torn denim jacket he used for work in the parish garden. He'd even glued on a fake mustache, the one that he had bought for last year's Halloween party when he'd gone as Pancho Villa ... Now he was booking it down a busy avenue like a thief after a heist. He'd run seven blocks and had just turned right toward the river and...
Author
Series
Cal Donovan volume 1
Publisher
Severn House Publishers
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
280 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Responding to an urgent summons from the Vatican, Harvard professor of religion and archaeology, Cal Donovan, flies to Italy to interview a young priest who has developed the stigmata of the crucifixion. Stunned to discover that the priest's condition may be genuine, Cal determines to uncover the cause of the mysterious wounds. But Cal is not the only one. When Giovanni is kidnapped from his church at dead of night, Cal comes to realize that the...
18) Credible threat
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"Years after her son's fatal overdose, grieving mother Rachel Higgins learns that his addiction may have grown out of damage suffered at the hands of a pedophile priest while he was in high school. Looking for vengeance, she targets the Catholic Church's most visible local figure, Archbishop Francis Gillespie. When the archbishop begins receiving anonymous threats, local police dismiss them, saying they're not credible. So he turns to his friends,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2001
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
245 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Lawyer Vicky Holden leaves the reservation for important cases for the Indian Nations. But Wind River pulls her back when Balder Industries executive Vince Lewis is killed while trying to hire Vicky for reservation work.
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
1997
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
244 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
When the Wind River Reservation agrees to a nuclear waste storage site in exchange for jobs and millions in revenue, murder points Vicky Holden and Father John toward a larger plot.
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