It might be tough to top the nameless "whiskey priest" from Graham Greene's great novel, "The Power and the Glory," for iconic priests from literature (an exercise to which we were inspired by the Year for Priests).
But go ahead and try. Who's your top pick?
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Chesterton's Father Brown.
The dying young priest in Georges Bernanos' great novel "Diary of a Country Priest," whose weakness makes him a channel of God's grace.
...the nameless, hard-of-hearing priest in James Lee Burke's "Heaven's Prisoners" (I think) to whom Dave Robicheaux goes to confession...
Father Felician from Longfellow's Evangeline.
The Whiskey priest is right up there along with the young priest in "Diary of a Country Priest." the last line of All is grace is so awesome.
Fr. Elijah from Michael O'Brien's novel is also worth mentioning and of course Chesterton's Fr. Brown is classic.
I am surprised that no one has mentioned the hot-headed priest in Giovanni Guareschi's 'The Little World of Don Camillo'.
But my faourite is also Bernanos' young priest. Only the French could have translated it so effectively to the scree. The DVDs of both of the above are available.
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