It is the story-teller's task to elicit sympathy and a measure of understanding for those who lie outside the boundaries of State Approval. Graham Greene One day I gave The Power and the Glory to... a native of Mexico who had lived through the worst persecutions... She confessed that your descriptions were so vivid, your priest so real, that she found herself praying for him at Mass. I understand how she felt. Last year, on …showed first 75 words of 1732 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1732 total…priests and Church. Greene deals masterfully with the mystery of the God, with people's beliefs. In The Power and the Glory Greene illustrates God's kindness as it defies the violent, atheistic government through the faith of his flawed, but still faithful people. And as the communism begins to spread all over the world, Greene's book assures the reader that there is a God, who will never leave us, and the evil will never win him.