Waiting for the Apocalypse

<p>It is 1972 and Veronica Chater's parents believe that Vatican II's liberalization has corrupted the Catholic Church inviting the Holy Chastisement--an apocalypse prophesied by three shepherds in Fatima Portugal. To spare his family this horror Veronica's father quits the highway patrol sells everything and moves the family of eight from California to an isolated village near Fatima.</p><p>But Portugal is no Catholic utopia and the family schleps home penniless to join the nascent Catholic counterrevolution: attending the Latin Mass in truck garages and abandoned buildings serving meals to religious soldiers breeding a new member of the faithful every year. As Veronica comes of age on the fringes of the American Dream she rebels against a fanaticism that forbids anything modern--clothes movies or music. This is the story both sad and funny of a family torn apart by religion and brought back together in spite of the injuries it inflicted on itself.</p>