Cardinal Mahony : A Novel

by Kaiser, Robert Blair

• ISBN13: 9780964664296
• ISBN10: 0964664291
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-12-01
• Publisher: Humble Bee Pr

Summary

An American bishop gets kidnapped outside his cabin in the High Sierras one snowy morning in November 2008 by three liberation theologians who look like terrorists. They take him off to southern Mexico in his own helicopter and put him on trial for his sins in front of an international television audience.  A jury of his peers, six retired Latin American bishops, ?nd him guilty, and give him a surprising sentence. The bishop falls in love with his kidnappers and leads the American Catholic Church into a radical new way of being, still Catholic but aggressively account­able to the people, which is to say, aggressively American. This work pushes the envelope. It is both ?ction” and non-?c­tion,” set in the reality of the current priest-sex-abuse scandal and projecting ahead in time to tell the story of a colorful crew--and a new Cardinal Mahony--working to give Catholics a voice, a vote, and citizenship in their Church. Utopian? Yes!  Why not dream?

Author Biography

Robert Blair Kaiser covered Vatican II for Time, worked on the religion beat for The New York Times, and served as journalism chairman at the University of Nevada Reno. Four of his eleven published books deal with Catholic church reform. This is his first novel. From 1999 to 2005, Kaiser was a contributing editor in Rome for Newsweek magazine and a Vatican consultant for CBS-TV.