A tale of redemption set in Italy.(THE DEVIL'S ADVOCATE )(Book Review)

From: National Catholic Reporter | Date: February 10, 2006| Author: Montevecchio, Arlene Helderman | Copyright information

THE DEVIL'S ADVOCATE By Morris West Loyola Press, 430 pages, $12.95

When Loyola Press recently released a new edition of Morris West's The Devil's Advocate, it gave modern readers of Catholic fiction the chance to encounter the classic tensions of theological inquiry: faith and reason, belief and doubt, grace and sin, hope and despair. Set in rural, impoverished Italy during World War II, Mr. West's sprawling story explores such struggles through Msgr. Meredith Blaise, ...

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