Hope of Mercy for the Wicked
Hope of Mercy for the Wicked
Michelle Arnold | Catholic Answers Apologist | October 5, 2017Nearly twenty years ago I read the
apocalyptic novel Father Elijah by
Michael O’Brien. The story is set up as a confrontation between the
hero, a Carmelite friar named Elijah, and the villain, a president who
the pope thinks may be the Antichrist. The pope dispatches Father Elijah
to try to avert the apocalypse by converting this evil man.
As
the story winds to a close, Father Elijah goes to the president’s
island stronghold for a final attempt to convert him. This ends in an
exorcism that leaves the president unconscious on the carpet. Suddenly,
an angel—in the form of a child who had helped Father Elijah
earlier—appears:
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