Damnation and Redemption: Religious Themes of Suffering and Humanity in Graham Greene’s The Power and the Glory

The Power and the Glory is set in Mexico in the late 1920s in a period of time when the government had outlawed the clergy and many priests found themselves fleeing persecution.   The story involves the wanderings of a particular priest (we are not given his name, he is described only as a ‘whiskey priest’) as he More

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