There is always an alternative to the faith we lose.
Or is it the same faith under another mask?
~ Graham Greene
Graham Greene's Catholicism was deeply felt, despite his well known reputation for womanising never one to deny his many flaws, and weaknesses possibly evidencing the feelings of many Catholics choosing to confess our many inadequacies in the face of temptation.
Evangelical Christians often reference the term, being born again evidencing their new found faith in God. For most of us our faith in God is lived afresh daily not as an event, but as a process of enlightenment taking us our life time to reveal the best in us dispensing with our past indiscretions. We learn through our daily experiences that our many failings teach us that there is a better way to live our life, inspired by the presence of a faint whisper from within our thoughts asking us to follow its guidance.
Graham Greene lived in Mexico during the mid 1930s inspiring him to write his "The Power, and the Glory" published in 1940. During the 1930s the left wing radicalised government of the Mexican state of Tabasco conducted a campaign of terror, and coercion against Catholic priests, and nuns attempting to end religious affiliation. Graham Greene's novel addresses the life of a Catholic priest living in Tabasco during those difficult years. A recommended read. Greene may well have also been inspired by events in Spain where the more extreme elements of its Republican government were conducting a similar campaign against Catholic clergy.
For the curious here is a link to the film adaption of "The Power, and the Glory" revealing the human element of a priest living under the threat of imprisonment, even death at the hands of the Tabasco authorities.:
The Fugitive, 1947
https://ok.ru/video/1102529235636
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