Word: priestly
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...sojourn in Spain is recounted with panache and subtlety in Arturo Perez-Reverte's The Seville Communion (Harcourt Brace; 375 pages; $24), one of those infrequent whodunits that transcend the genre. The investigating priest is soon dipping into an olla podrida involving cupidity, lost love and sudden deaths at the church that may or may not have been accidents. Among those defending the church is the imperious noblewoman Macarena Bruner, whose Carmen-like beauty disturbs the celibate priest. She's the estranged wife of a banker who faces financial ruin if a sneaky real estate deal that would raze...
Abandoning his studied neutrality, Quart eventually performs a priestly act that saves Our Lady of the Tears, but at the cost of his ecclesiastical career. In doing so, the priest, who imagines himself a kind of modern Knight Templar, finds his true self by breaking through the armor of discipline and obedience that has served him as a surrogate for faith...
...finds ineffective; at the other "Papal maximalists" who have prospered under the current papacy but "sensing victory, [have become] even more judgmental and vicious." The vast, threatened "middle ground" is proud of the Pope but ignorant of his writings, defiant of his sexuality rulings and worried that the priest shortage threatens their beloved parish life...
...local priest is not the only person with whom the officers are friendly. Even in a city of over 100,000 residents, the officers give off a small-town type of familiarity and confidence. The only difference is that the crime here is not all small-town...
...amazed about all of the officers' enthusiasm and sense of duty. If I didn't know better, I would say they must have all known I was coming and planned to say hello to the priest and take blind people out to dinner and talk passionately about respect...