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The Power and the Glory
The Power and the Glory is a 1940 novel by British author Graham Greene. The title is an allusion to the doxology often recited at the end of the Lord's Prayer: "For thine is the kingdom, the power, and the glory, forever and ever, amen.Viva Cristo Rey" ("Long live Christ the King"). In 1941, the novel received the Hawthornden Prize, a British literary award. In 2005, it was chosen by TIME magazine as one of the hundred best English-language novels since 1923. During the period of intense anti-clerical government policies in Mexico, the state of Tabasco enforces a ban on Catholicism rigorously, while many other states follow a don't-ask-don't-tell policy. But in Radical Socialist Tabasco, priests have been settled by the state with wives (breaking celibacy...
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