Letters of the Cloth

Nazis terrorizing Jews and Jewish sympathizers discover 6-year-old Marcello Luciaris father hiding his best friend Chianos family. Despite absorbing the blows of unfathomable brutality and loss Marcello navigates the callous tides of injustice swelling in rivers of hate. Outraged by Pope Pius XIIs silence throughout the Holocaust he rises from the rubble of occupied Rome armed with spiritual idealism and venerable courage. He shapes his destiny as a vicar of valor by challenging self-justifying Catholic authority and contemptable behavior shrouded beneath the Churchs bureaucratic armor. After pursuing parallel humanitarian paths for 75 years Marcello and Chiano earn entry into Romes highest levels of religious influence and set the stage to inaugurate a noble progressive Catholic Church. This emotionally jarring poignant story of virtue amidst a theater of inhumanity seizes your heart from the moment its beguiling characters dance onto page one through their triumphant climax.