The title of this humorous book tells you that it is funny. Little do you know how funny! I’m a religious person and I was wondering if the book would be too wild for someone who is religious, but when you start reading this book you have to put your personal feelings aside or else don’t read it! I’m much better off because I’ve read all about some priests, nuns, bishops, cardinals, laid-back women and clerics, and a cast of many who have led a wilder kind of life that contains much to have made those lives busy, entertaining, and in touch. with many other real “characters”.
Craig Connery had been in prison for something he didn’t feel guilty about. But he had served his sentence and on the day of his release, he began to move quickly down a path from the prison to get away from the reporters and from that den as fast as he could. While he was resting, he heard a car speed down the road and swerve off the road into a field crashing and spinning as he went on his deadly path. Craig went to the car to see if he could help someone in the car and found a man alive, whispering words of “My brother” to Craig and then left this world. Craig began to think about how similar this man was to himself and he thought that his life would be much better if he changed identification with this man. After all, the dead guy wouldn’t know about the switch. He then he changed his identity, changing his identification with the corpse. He kept walking and called the police from a phone booth so as not to be around when the emergency and judicial authorities arrived. When asked his name, he replied with his new name, Father James Kempster! You have to realize that Craig had led a very relaxed life of sex, drinking, some criminal activities and didn’t have much feeling for the people he hurt during his lifetime. He was now a priest and was used to using the worst possible language.
Father James found his way to where he lived, he found his family who thought he looked different but they felt he looked quite alike, so they kept quiet most of the time. From here, Craig’s new identity as a priest sends him to Australia on a scheme in which local Catholic church leaders turned him into a pawn to sell a house where the elderly lived, leaving them without a place to live. The adventures that Father James had on his way to Australia and in Australia will keep you laughing-not at him but with him as he learned his own way as a priest, how to prepare and present a service, and fool and confuse many that he places.
You will laugh endlessly at a fake priest as he performs the duties of a priest in his own way and has a lot of fun doing it. While traveling to Australia, a passenger on the plane had a seizure and was called to provide comfort to the victim. Thinking he was performing a service to help her, he actually performed an exorcism, he learned from the movie of the same name, which luckily revived the woman and made him a hero. This is the kind of humor throughout the entire book. Enjoy it. Thank you Courtney Webb for such a good read.