Country Priest versus Whisky Priest ~ The Imaginative Conservative

Country Priest versus Whisky Priest ~ The Imaginative Conservative

What makes a good priest and what are we to make of a bad priest? These questions are at the heart of two classic twentieth century novels, published just four years apart. The first, Diary of a Country Priest by Georges Bernanos, published in 1936, recounts the struggles of a young priest, newly appointed to a rural parish in northern France; the second, The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene, published in 1940, tells of the travails of the “…