They are harassed by the post-Franco Guardia. in spite of the Politburo." But meanwhile, on their raggedy travels to Madrid and the countryside, this ideologically pure duo attracts repressive attention from the State and the Church. reads the Manifesto, finding some unlikely spirituality in it matters of doctrine (e.g., birth control) are debated and they'll eventually agree that Quixote is a "Catholic in spite of the Curia" while the Mayor is a "Communist. Much of this small book, then, consists of the witty yet weighty theological/political dialogues between Catholic and Communist: sipping wine, they compare the relative evils of Stalin and Torquemada they contrast faith in God with faith in Marx Monsignor Q. clings to the Old Theology-"just having faith." And, after rather accidentally becoming a Monsignor, aging Father Quixote is virtually forced out of his beloved El Toboso parish by the cruel Bishop-so he sets off on some travels in his beloved, senile Fiat (called "Rocinante," of course), with the Communist ex-Mayor of El Toboso as his Sancho Panza. defiantly stayed true to the Old Chivalry, Father Q. Quixote here is Father Quixote, a Spanish village-priest and a supposed descendant of the original Don. The theological shade of Greene-in a wispy, undramatic, but charming modern-day fable, loosely paralleling the Cervantes classic.
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