Paul Lakeland
Priestly Tales
It’s refreshing to encounter two novels about the lives of priests that feature not sex abuse or embezzlement, but rather the possibility of romance between consenting adults. A review of John Reimringer’s debut novel Vestments, set in St. Paul, Minnesota, in the decades after Vatican II, and Judith Rock's The Rhetoric of Death, about a Jesuit scholastic assigned to teach rhetoric and dance at the College of Louis le Grand in seventeenth-century Paris.

