Trouble in the Diocese

Trouble in the Diocese is a petulant funny book of poetry. Its contrary protagonist/antagonist the Apprentice embraces life in both the large and the absurdly small. At the same time he emphatically rejects the easy rigidity of doily-headed orthodox Catholics as well as the impulse in the Catholic literary Pixar world that seeks to serve two masters. Jesus and his Church are lifted up here but so is the cross. Discipleship necessarily involves dis-ease purgation and if we as readers have any sense we will--more quietly perhaps--do well to listen (with patience) to his rants.