What does a whiskey-drinking priest on the run in anti-Catholic Mexico teach us about grace, failure, and the Church?
In this video, Tyler and Sadie from the Great Catholic Book Club dive into The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene—our January 2026 book of the month. This isn't just a book discussion; it's a raw, honest conversation about:
• The Church's complicated legacy—colonialism, scandal, and imperfect transmission
• Why so many people leave the faith (and why they have a point)
• Alcoholism, addiction, and using excuses to avoid the real work
• The hope that it would be "so easy to be a saint"—if we just choose it today
• How the Eucharist is never the "bare minimum"—it's everything
Graham Greene's masterpiece forces us to sit in the uncomfortable middle: between blame and self-pity, between powerlessness and radical freedom. The whiskey priest never stops delivering the sacraments—even as he never stops drinking. And in the end, he walks to his own martyrdom.
The message? You don't have to wait until your deathbed to realize you could have been a saint. You can start today.
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