P.S. Witte
ASIN: B01LXH5I2C
Publisher: P.S. Witte
Pages: 236
They say the Holy Spirit is strong; perhaps not generally quite this strong. Father John Burns is a Catholic priest who gets transferred to a poorer than poor church in the middle of the Depression. Faced with overwhelming odds and a suspicion that he is being set up by a crooked Cardinal to fail, he refuses to lose faith and vows to take care of his parish by any means necessary. Armed with an old family recipe for moonshine, a spirit of adventure and a few items that may have "fallen off a truck" while driving by the church, Father Burns sets up a still in the church basement, piping the steam up through one of the statues of the saints statues in the church above. Is it a miracle when one of the parishioners sees the statue crying? Will Father Burns attract the attention of the mob, who doesn't like to share their liquor profits with a newcomer? Will his Nonna forgive him for going ...