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The Priest by Thomas M. Disch

Hardcover – Knopf – 1995 – 303 pages

Minneapolis priest Pat Bryce is plagued by a host of distinctly unholy problems, including a fondness for altar boys, the blackmail efforts of underworld types (who know of the good father’s indiscretions) and involvement in a plot by a fellow priest and an anti-abortion group called Birth-Right to ensure that pregnant girls come to term by holding them hostage in a pseudo-medieval fortress. Bryce’s severest affliction, however, is a tendency to assume the identity of a 13th-century bishop in the Inquisition. –  Publisher’s Weekly