The Cardinal Sins – Andrew M. Greeley

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Religious drama

Pride, covetousness, lust, anger, gluttony, envy, sloth: these are the cardinal sins that drive men and women to perdition. Priests are men, and like all men, they sin.

Kevin Brenman and Patrick Donahue grow up together in the city. There they discover physical love in the arms of innocent Ellen Foley and sensuous Maureen Cunningham, powerful women who never leave the two men’s lives. Both Kevin and Patrick carry their past with them into the priesthood, a memory of lost, sensual bliss.

The Cardinal Sins does for the Catholic Church what The Godfather did for the Mafia. It shows the passions beneath the cloth, the torments and pleasures of the men of flesh who are our spiritual guides. By charting the tempestuous careers of two men and the women who love them, Father Greeley draws a picture storming with the ecstasy and rage, the corruption and the glory of the Catholic Church today.

“Father Geeley does a spirited job of humanising the lives and work of Catholic priests, showing that they don’t live in ivory towers. The sex scenes are handled with taste, but will undoubtedly shock.” Publishers Weekly