18 books like The Power and the Glory

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Brideshead Revisited Evelyn Waugh · 1945 · ★ 4.0 · 327p · ≈ 10h · Challenging The most nostalgic and reflective of Evelyn Waugh's novels, Brideshead Revisited looks back to the golden age before the Second World War. It tells the story of Charles Ryder's infatuation with the Marchmains and the rapidly-disappearing world of privilege they inhabit. Enchanted first by Sebastian at Oxford, then by his doomed Catholic family, in particular his remote sister, Julia, Charles… Shares: Catholics

The Devil's Advocate Morris West · 1959 · 309p · ≈ 10h · Moderate The Devil's Advocate, Morris West's best-selling novel, is a deft exploration of the meaning of faith. In an impoverished village in southern Italy, the life and death of Giacomo Nerone has inspired talk of saint­hood. Father Blaise Meredith, a dying English priest, is sent from the Vatican to investigate—and to try to untangle the web of facts, rumors, and outright lies that surround Nerone's… Shares: Catholics, Catholic Church, Clergy

Lourdes Émile Zola · 1894 · ★ 4.0 · 598p · ≈ 19h · Challenging Lourdes is the first of Zola's Three Cities collection. The story follows the pilgrimage of Pierre Froment while challenging the suitability of religious fervor. Shares: Catholics, Catholic Church, Clergy

The Wisdom of Father Brown Gilbert Keith Chesterton · 1913 · ★ 3.8 · 186p · ≈ 6h · Challenging "And the young woman of the house," asked Dr. Hood, with huge and silent amusement, "what does she want?" "Why, she wants to marry him," cried Father Brown, sitting up eagerly. "That is just the awful complication." "It is indeed a hideous enigma," said Dr. Hood. "This young James Todhunter," continued the cleric, "is a very decent man so far as I know; but then nobody knows very much. He is a… Shares: Catholics, Catholic Church, Clergy

Mo scéal féin Peadar Ó Laoghaire · 1910 · 219p · ≈ 7h · Challenging An autobiography (“My Own Story”). Shares: Catholic Church, Clergy, Social life and customs, History

Daughter of Satan Eleanor Burford · 1952 · 284p · ≈ 9h · Moderate Even Tamar's mother believed that the child had been forced on her by the Devil when, against her judgement, she was persuaded to attend a midsummer sabbat of witches. In a world of superstition and intolerance, Tamar, growing into a wild and beautiful girl, seemed doomed to violent death when the witch-pricker came to Plymouth. Intelligent though untutored, she attracted the attentions of Bartle… Shares: Persecution, History

Thy brother's wife Andrew M. Greeley · 1982 · ★ 3.8 · 350p · ≈ 11h · Moderate The direction of Paul and Sean Cronin's lives was shaped the day their father, a self-made multimillionaire, decided that one of his boys would grow up to be a cardinal while the other would become president of the United States.For his elder son, Paul, the father had even chosen a wife—the beautiful Nora, who had come to the Cronin home as an orphan child years before. Obediently, and with a… Shares: Catholic Church, Clergy

Apologia pro vita sua John Henry Newman · 1860 · ★ 4.1 · 340p · ≈ 11h · Challenging An influential Church of England vicar, John Henry Newman stunned the Anglican community in 1843, when he joined the Roman Catholic Church. Protestant clergyman Charles Kingsley launched the most scathing attacks against Newman and this was Newman's brilliant response. A spiritual autobiography, Apologia Pro Vita Sua explores the very depths and nature of Christianity. Shares: Catholics, Catholic Church, Clergy, History

The master-Christian Marie Corelli · 1900 This book by Marie Corelli is a fictional account on scandals in social morals and traditional religious beliefs. Shares: Catholic Church, Clergy

Es gibt kein anderes Leben Brian Moore · 1993 · ★ 3.9 · 223p · ≈ 7h · Moderate "Father Paul Michel, a Canadian missionary on the desperately poor Caribbean island of Ganae, rescues a black child from abject poverty and sets him on a road toward a dramatic and dangerous future as a revolutionary Catholic priest and, later, as the first democratically elected leader in a land of dictators and despair." "Jeannot, as Father Paul calls him, is young and brilliant, a messianic… Shares: Catholics, Catholic Church, Clergy

The Loney Andrew Michael Hurley · 2014 · ★ 3.3 · 368p · ≈ 12h · Moderate 300 pages ; 21 cm Shares: Catholics, Catholic Church

The Thorn Birds Colleen McCullough · 1977 · ★ 4.3 · 698p · ≈ 23h · Moderate The Thorn Birds is a 1977 best-selling novel by Australian author Colleen McCullough. Set primarily on Drogheda – a fictional sheep station in the Australian Outback named after Drogheda, Ireland – the story focuses on the Cleary family and spans the years 1915 to 1969. Shares: Catholics, Catholic Church, Clergy

Virgin James Patterson · 1980 · ★ 3.8 · 343p · ≈ 11h · Moderate The #1 bestseller Pop Goes the Weasel proved once again that James Patterson is an undisputed master of suspense. Now he has written his most compelling and surprising thriller ever. . . .Cradle & All In Boston, a young woman finds herself pregnant--even though she is still a virgin. In Ireland, another young woman discovers she is in the same impossible condition. And in cities all around the… Shares: Catholics, Catholic Church

Death Comes for the Archbishop Willa Cather · 1732 · ★ 4.0 · 319p · ≈ 10h · Demanding In 1851 French Bishop Latour and his friend Father Valliant are dispatched to New Mexico to reawaken its slumbering Catholicism. Moving along the endless prairies, Latour spreads his faith the only way he knows-- gently, although he must contend with the unforgiving landscape, derelict and sometimes openly rebellious priests, and his own loneliness. Over nearly 40 years, they leave converts and… Shares: Catholic Church, Clergy, History

Chance Joseph Conrad · 1913 · ★ 3.7 · 367p · ≈ 12h · Challenging Miss Flora de Barral is the daughter of an imprisoned swindler left to fend for herself, with no real standing in society. She must depend on the kindness of strangers, and some kindnesses come with strings attached. Will meeting Captain Anthony give Flora the dignity and happiness she seeks? The story is told by several different perspectives in this romance novel. Shares: Classic, British and irish fiction, Classics

Dom Casmurro Machado de Assis · 1900 · ★ 4.3 · 321p · ≈ 10h · Challenging Dom Casmurro, publicado pela primeira vez em 1899, é um dos romances realistas mais importantes de Machado de Assis, considerado por alguns sua obra-prima. O livro narra a história de Bento Gonçalves desde sua juventude, abordando temas como religião, adultério e ambiguidade moral. Shares: Catholics, Catholic Church, Historical Fiction

Actes and monuments John Foxe · 1563 · ★ 4.3 · 597p · ≈ 19h · Demanding "Acts and monuments of matters most special and memorable, happening in the church with an universal history of the same. Wherein is set forth at large, the whole race and course of the church, from the primitive age to these later times of ours, with the bloody times, horrible troubled, and great persecutions against the true martyrs of Christ ... Whereunto are annexed certain additions of like… Shares: Persecution, Catholic Church, History

Ficciones Jorge Luis Borges · 1945 · ★ 4.4 · 185p · ≈ 6h · Challenging A collection of his short stories in which Borges often uses the labyrinth as a literary device to expound his ideas on all aspects of human life and endeavor. ---------- Contains: Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius Shares: Persecution, Social life and customs

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