As a result, the area was left to decay due to the insubordinate and materialistic clergy. There Latour and Vaillant are entrusted with the task of reinvigorating the religion that has been corrupted and manipulated by Spanish priests. In the novel, Father Jean Marie Latour, a recently appointed Archbishop of New Mexico, travels with his fellow priest and subordinate, Father Joseph Vaillant, to the new territory of New Mexico. Even though the author fully captured the ideals of Catholicism, I found the book unimaginative and unoriginal. This book follows the story of Father Jean Marie Latour as he travels to New Mexico in hopes of reforming the religious turmoil that has occurred in the area. “Where there is great love, there are always great miracles…The miracles of theĬhurch…rest not so much on faces or voices or healing powers coming suddenly near to us from far off, but upon our perceptions being made finer, so that for a moment our eyes can see and our ears can hear what there is always about us.” () This quote from Willa Cather’s novel, Death Comes for the Archbishop, published by Random House in 1962, encapsulates the theme of the book about the relationship between religion and love.
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