Books about catholic priests

Georges Bernanos: The Diary of a Country Priest, Under the Sun of Satan.
Francois Mauriac had some. What else?

That is the face of raped, and rapist. An image of the Ouroboros of abuse.

Red and Black.

Does "catholic church" mean only raping children for you?

holy shit, how could I forget it. Thanks!

t. Julien

also: this is too idealistic to be realist. I will never agree that Stendhal is a realist.

Raping children and devoting your life to fairy tales, yes.

Crimes of the Father - by Thomas Keneally (who was a catholic priest)

Here, reading and commenting on literature, we are also devoting our lives to fairy tales (fiction)

definitely not a realist
>she carries his head around
>she dies holding her children
the french are just abysmal.

He was an early realist.
Frankly, even Flaubert sounds like a Romantic at times.

Flaubert has very realist and detailed description of places and obcjects (except this fucking cap/hat/whatever that Charles Bovary wore at school)

Also Eca de Queiroz, O Crime do Padre Amaro ("The Crime of Father Amaro")

Atheists are like pavlovian dogs. When they hear Catholic they bark rapist.

JF Powers wrote a couple novels about priests. Morte D' Urban was pretty good

The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene

True Confessions by John Gregory Dunne
very funny in a racist and raunchy kind of way
One brother is a priest, the other is a cop and he has most of the racist lines.

Diary of a Country Priest is usually highly recommended in these kind of threads but I haven't read it to be desu.

whoops, I somehow missed Diary in OP's post.

Sorry.

But I also thought of A Flag for Sunrise by Robert Stone. There's two priests, one Latin American communist revolutionary and one Yankee alcoholic But there are a bunch of other characters as well.

Holy Man Father Damian of Molokai

Biography of a priest who dedicated his life to serving lepers in an isolated Hawaiian colony. Since the book came out, he has been declared a saint.

no, but that guy's face does.
a good book i would suggest to you is The Recognitions, the religious overtones, though not entirely centered around the catholic faith, are multitudinous and fascinating.

there's a really good lithuanian one, but i don't think it has been translated

A CANTICLE FOR LEIBOWITZ

Wheat that Springeth Green. Published by NYBR.

>the Ouroboros of abuse.
nice one

Uroboros would be more like painful autofellatio

the little world of don camillo by giovanni guareschi

Eça is very good

Any novels about priests investigating miracles?