The Vatican has just assigned Auxiliary Bishop Gus Quill to the Archdiocese of Chicago over the violent protests of Archbishop Cronin and the not-so-silent protests of Bishop Blackie. Bishop Quill is under the illusion, one might say delusion, that he has been sent from Rome to replace the good Cardinal, when in fact we know that Rome sent him to Chicago to get rid of him because of his incompetence.

Father Lar and his new, young assistant, Father Jamie, discover a sinister, secret organization called "Corpus Christi," a cult practicing evil clandestine rites, at work in their wealthy suburban parish.

A poltergeist in the White House? Strange as it sounds, that seems to be the case. A playful spirit, of unknown origin, is at work in the First Residence: rattling chains, slamming doors, dislodging paintings, disrupting press conferences and state dinners.

Father Herman Hoffman, a gifted and innocent young priest who, during his first parish appointment, gets swept up in the "Crisis" after witnessing child abuse in the parish rectory. When he reports the abuse, he is rebuffed by the archbishop and, vilified for denouncing a priest who has been "cleared" by the police, learns the harsh fate of the whistleblower in the contemporary Catholic Church. Later, forced to testify in a court hearing, Father Hoffman...

Becoming suspicious about facts surrounding a tragic vehicular homicide for which a young man blames himself, psychic Nuala Anne McGrail and her husband find the case complicated by a scandal involving the diary of a nineteenth-century priest.

When Nuala Anne, singer and sometime psychic, learns that Desmond Doolin, a peacenik young man from her Chicago neighborhood, has gone missing in the Middle East, she's convinced that he's still alive. But if U.S. government officials know Desmond's whereabouts, they're not talking, and finding him requires Nuala Anne and her adoring, dilettantish husband, Dermot Coyne, to research his path through the Middle East as well as pin down his relationship...

Chuckie, the youngest O'Malley son, finds his plans for a quiet life as an accountant with a nice Catholic family threatened by the return of Rosemarie, his beautiful nemesis.

Taking leave of his usual Chicago haunts, Archbishop John Blackwood Ryan travels to the south of Spain in this latest mystery by bestselling author Greeley. The local cardinal has summoned the wily archbishop to Spain in hopes that Blackie can avert a murder before it happens.