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An Occasion of Sin
An Occasion of Sin
Author: Andrew M. Greeley
"Do you canonize a rich and ambitious son of a bitch who bought ecclesiastical promotion at the same time as he was carrying on a lifelong romance with another man's wife?" That's for Father Laurence McAuliffe (last seen in The Cardinal Virtues) to discover in Greeley's engrossing new mixture of intrigue, politics, sex and, of course, churchly i...  more »
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ISBN-13: 9780515108941
ISBN-10: 0515108944
Publication Date: 8/1/1992
Pages: 351
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Publisher: Jove Books
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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When dashing Chicago prelate John Cardinal McGlynn is martyred in Nicaragua, he dies in the arms of Marbeth Quinlan, his beautiful female companion, murmuring "God, how I love you." Two years later after the apparently miraculous cure of Marbeth's grandson, "Jumping Johnny" McGlynn is being considered for cannonization. But there are troubling questions about the Cardinal's suitability for sainthood--chief among them, the ambiguous sexual nature of his lifelong relationship with Marbeth. Assigned the role of devil's advocate, Father Laurence McAuliffe, for years McGlynn's greatest critic, must penetrate the Cardinal's past for proof of sinfulness. But what he discovers is a complex chronicle of spiritual longing, sensual temptation--and the infinite mystery of faith.


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