![]() Plot ĭuring the period when Catholicism was outlawed in Mexico, the state of Tabasco enforces the ban rigorously, while many other states follow a don't-ask-don't-tell policy. In 2005, it was chosen by TIME magazine as one of the hundred best English-language novels since 1923. ![]() In 1941, the novel received the Hawthornden Prize British literary award. That suppression had resulted in the Cristero War (1927–1929), so named for its Catholic combatants' slogan " Viva Cristo Rey " ("Long live Christ the King"). Greene's novel tells the story of a renegade Catholic ' whisky priest' (a term coined by Greene) living in the Mexican state of Tabasco in the 1930s, a time when the Mexican government was attempting to suppress the Catholic Church. The title is an allusion to the doxology often recited at the end of the Protestants' Lord's Prayer: "For thine is the kingdom, the power, and the glory, forever and ever, amen." It was initially published in the United States under the title The Labyrinthine Ways. The Power and the Glory is a 1940 novel by British author Graham Greene. ![]()
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