Whisky Priest and Priests Stories

Berkeley, Sunday, April 19, 2026 0:28 am

This is going to be an incomplete post. I might not complete it later either, unless there is a need or demand, and time for it. It expresses some current reading intentions, and updates on reading, and reflections, but time is limited, and particularly is flying quite fast, and I am not fully connect to that rush vibe now. Sometimes I rush to bart, which has my ears ringing by now. I will take a few actions for that. Reading on bart is fine, not sure if it is good for the brain. I still grasp some of the material I read there, yet usually I assess to be in the moment as well. Although, with protecting the ears, I might need to create an isolation from the surrounding environment. Not my style.

I am tented, and I have started reading an interesting introduction to Father Brown stories. I love Chesterton wit, in his writing. I read a few years ago, his Orthodoxy book. In this introduction, Michael D. Hurley brings up an interesting point, which I am generalizing, and was at the core of the reason that Chesterton wrote his detective book, inspired on a Jesuit Priest, Father John O’Connor, who he named father Brown.

Two Cambridge students belittled that a priest could have reason of the real evils of the world, might be under the assumption of their experiences, or clustery in a few cases, who knows. Well named and expand the word evil, and it can be in several cases, which already start with the wrong intention, but it is very likely that the priest knows very well the products. Not only their studies, tradition, stories, and consecrated hands, and hearing confessions, have in the core of the vocation to be part of a war against evil.

Well, I am curious how Chesterton has guided his Father Brown character. There are quite a few stories of Father Brown that he wrote. The first one was published in 1911. About 11 years before he converted or entered or was received in the Catholic Church at 48 years old. His last stories on Father Brown were published in 1936. those are part of his 79 books that I counted. There might be more.

He kept the innocence and wonder alive, without being an idiot.

I mentioned Father Whisky in the title, not only because he was another character in a book, by Graham Greene, The Power and The Glory. I did not recall the father whisky name, I had to google that. I recall that he drank brandy, and quite often. It is a great novel, about the persecution to Catholics in South Mexico, probably near Chiapas. A few months ago, I learned that “Cristo Rey”, or more acutely “Viva, Cristo Rey” comes from those times, and wars. Are those actual wars, wars against evil. Still, yes, because of the aim to power, personification, making god of a person himself, and the restriction to worship the Lord freely. Still, the last priest in town was taken care by people, and had to solve several problems, including curing a criminal. Who had the greatest evil? Wrong question. The priest was put to the paredon at the end and fusilado.

I believe that good reviewer and writer, Joseph Pearce has a post in this specific topic. It is not an honor mentioned and not reading, it is rather a dishonor. But I include a link here to his article, because now I will read it at some point. And also, to honor his sources, because I have learned plenty on what to read from his books. Highly recommended books on literature advices. The end of a sentence is a point of power, decided to invert in that way, because power point is too connected to a software even in meaning. But once added more information, like here, in this whole additional paragraph, then meaning of ending with a powerful statement, less some value, which makes it harder to end, but it ends with an additional recommendation, for transparency to the brain of google shots in results of a quick search.

https://www.ncregister.com/blog/literary-priests-in-the-apocalyptic-tavern