The Priest Is A Mafia Don: Punish Me Father!
"You chose compassion over cruelty and faith over fear, even though faith didn't come naturally to you."
"Faith." He laughed without humor. "I can't imagine having faith in anything except violence and money, those are the only gods that actually answer prayers."
"You didn't have faith in God." I stopped at the front pew. "You had faith in people's ability to be better than their worst moments, and that faith is what made you a good priest even when you didn't believe you deserved to be one."
He reached the altar and ran his hand across the stone surface, his fingers finding grooves and marks that only someone familiar would know to look for. "There's something carved here, initials or symbo