![]() ![]() reads the Manifesto, finding some unlikely spirituality in it matters of doctrine (e.g., birth control) are debated and they'll eventually agree that Quixote is a "Catholic in spite of the Curia" while the Mayor is a "Communist. Much of this small book, then, consists of the witty yet weighty theological/political dialogues between Catholic and Communist: sipping wine, they compare the relative evils of Stalin and Torquemada they contrast faith in God with faith in Marx Monsignor Q. clings to the Old Theology-"just having faith." And, after rather accidentally becoming a Monsignor, aging Father Quixote is virtually forced out of his beloved El Toboso parish by the cruel Bishop-so he sets off on some travels in his beloved, senile Fiat (called "Rocinante," of course), with the Communist ex-Mayor of El Toboso as his Sancho Panza. defiantly stayed true to the Old Chivalry, Father Q. Quixote here is Father Quixote, a Spanish village-priest and a supposed descendant of the original Don. The theological shade of Greene-in a wispy, undramatic, but charming modern-day fable, loosely paralleling the Cervantes classic. ![]()
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