The Acolyte A Novel
Hank is thirteen, head altar boy at a traditional Catholic parish. When the FBI raids the cathedral, they need him. So does the Church, for opposite reasons.
Like most Catholics, Hank’s mom and dad celebrated only the two most obvious and uninteresting events in the liturgical calendar, Christmas and Easter. The Ascension, though, was pure spiritual cinema. Instead of a manger and donkeys, or people in bathrobes rolling a rock away from a tomb, it had the entire firmament as its stage.
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Faith moves mountains, but trembles before the face of evil.
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