Description
Charismatic Monsignor Pat Hogan is about to be installed as a bishop.
Suddenly, in the wake of the assassination of a powerful Vatican official, the Pope receives anonymous information that Hogan is hiding a shocking and scandalous secret that involves the other two members of the Trinity, one a globe-trotting leftist radical, the other a brilliant young cleric who myster- iously takes his own life.
Father Kevin Kelly, a world-weary ex-Green Beret turned priest, has been picked by the Papal Nuncio to the United States to investigate Hogan's secret past. But the truth won't be revealed without Kelly's confronting church politics, self-doubt, and his own repressed past.
Sensitive to the most vexing spiritual issues of the day and hard-edged in its portrayal of passion, ambition, and political corruption, Acts of Contrition is a compelling novel of contemporary saints and sinners.
