Bless Me Father

<FONT face=Myriad Pro size=2><FONT face=Myriad Pro size=2><SPAN style=FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial''sans-serif'><P class=MsoNormal style=MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; mso-layout-grid-align: none><SPAN style=FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial''sans-serif'>The day breaks gloomy outside Saint Patrick's Cathedral where a solitary gunman waits for the services to end.<SPAN style=mso-spacerun: yes>  </SPAN>Inside the majestic church 2000 worshippers join New York Senator Frank Connolly and his wife Caroline being honored for her contributions to the Archdiocese.<SPAN style=mso-spacerun: yes>  </SPAN>When the mass ends Connolly goes to confession before leaving the Cathedral - where he is met and assassinated by James Murphy.<SPAN style=mso-spacerun: yes>  </SPAN>Except there is no James Murphy.<SPAN style=mso-spacerun: yes>  </SPAN>His name and identity are false his history beyond the past ten years as a janitor untraceable his motive never discovered.<SPAN style=mso-spacerun: yes>  </SPAN>Tried and convicted Murphy refuses to speak until four years later - and two days before his scheduled execution - Murphy gives his last confession to the prison chaplin.<SPAN style=mso-spacerun: yes>   </SPAN>The confession so startles the priest bound by the Church's restrictions on revealing the words of the penitent - the Sacramental Seal - he races to Saint Patrick's to seek the advice of his former pupil Dominic Cardinal Enicerlico a street tough raised in Little Italy who has risen to one the highest and most powerful positions in the Church .<SPAN style=mso-spacerun: yes>  </SPAN>Having extracted the information from the chaplin the Cardinal risks excommunication by soliciting the aid of his best friend - retired police detective Dean Napolitano - to prevent the execution by discovering why Murphy committed murder.<SPAN style=mso-spacerun: yes>  </SPAN>What Dean learns is a secret maintained through coercion bribes and murder committed by people who will stop at nothing to keep Murphy's words from being disclosed.<SPAN style=mso-spacerun: yes>  </SPAN>Anyone aware of the secret faces death Dominic and Dean not only face death but their own demons before the secret can be disclosed.<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office /><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P></SPAN></FONT></FONT>