Catastrophic Priest Novel [ SIMPLE · Review ]

I said: “No, honey. God is forever.”

One cold November night, during a sparsely attended vigil, the church explodes. Not from a gas leak or arson—but from a pillar of silent, white fire that falls from the ceiling like a guillotine. Michael is thrown through the sacristy door. He survives. His fifty-three parishioners do not. Catastrophic Priest Novel

I was wrong.

One year later. Michael is defrocked, imprisoned for arson and mass destruction of property. In his cell, he receives a single photograph: Maria, the eight-year-old girl, alive and smiling on a school playground—holding a note that reads, “You said God couldn’t die. You were wrong. But so was I. – M.S.” I said: “No, honey

Not because God died. Because forever is a long time to be silent. And on November 12th, at 7:43 p.m., when the roof of St. Agatha’s caved in like a kicked anthill, God had nothing to say. Michael is thrown through the sacristy door

The official report calls it a “catastrophic structural failure.” Michael calls it murder. But who murdered faith itself?

Think The Exorcist if Father Karras never found God again—and had to fight Pazuzu with an IED made from sacramental wine.