Reviews / Book Reviews

March 24, 2025, by Madelyn Reichert, OSV News
"Padre Raimundo's Army and Other Stories" Arthur Powers, Wiseblood Books (2021) 201 pages, $15 Located almost exclusively in Brazil yet spanning several decades, Arthur Powers' 2021 short story collection, "Padre Raimundo's Army and Other Stories," makes real the truth that faith without works is dead – and likewise, just how alive a faith lived through works truly is. Drawn from his own experiences of life in Brazil over the latter half of the 20th century, first as a volunteer in the Peace Corps and then as a lawyer working with the Church's land reform efforts, Powers' presentations of the nation and its people in these 17 short stories insist on their own reality. His descriptions are almost tangible; from…
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