Chapter 1: Help Wanted
“Ah, Father Kelly.” The wrinkled face of the secretary peered around the corner and into the waiting room. “Come in. Bishop Whitford will see you now.”
It really wasn’t fair, Justin Kelly thought, as he stood and made his way into the office of the Catholic Bishop of Peoria, that after four years of college and another four of seminary school, a priest still had to go through the process of applying for a position, the same as any other college graduate who left college with a diploma clutched in one fist and a pile of student loans in another.
You would think, he thought wryly, that after two thousand years the Church would have figured out a better way of doing things.
“Father Kelly, My Lord.” The secretary gave him a stern look, as if he were a child who could
