Review: Death Comes For The Archbishop

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This was our classic read  for my local book club. I’ll be honest, I’m not a big fan of classics in general. DEATH COMES FOR THE ARCHBISHOP by Willa Cather surprised me on a number of levels, and the fact that I enjoyed it so much, was one.

Cather’s epic follows Father Jean Marie Latour in 1851 as he journeys to a rather tortured section of the church as its newly appointed Apostolic Vicar. What follows is a series of stories from Latour’s life and how the diocese changes and develops in thi...