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Precisely when the solemn ceremony receiving the renegade Episcopal priest Father George Wheatleyy into the Roman Catholic priesthood is det to begin, a bomb explodes, und the altar. Fortunately Farther Wheatley arrives late, but poor old Father Farmer dies in the tragedy. Father Wheatley's switch to the Catholic church has certirred up murderous passions in the parish. His son and daughter-one alreadyan episcopal priest, the other study to become one-are seething. Conservative Catholics are enraged by the ver idea of a married priest. As blind prejudice, jealousy, and thwarted ambition swirl around St. Joseph's, Father Koesler mediatates on one question: who placed the phone call that made him late for his own murder?