Confessional Matters

About the Book

Former classics professor Bertrand McAbee, the reticent P.I and former classics prof, cannot avoid violence and mayhem. His high-powered brother is asked by the highest echelons in the Vatican to pursue the truth concerning a lawsuit brought against a priest who is a personal friend of the Pope. It’s a charge of pedophilia. The priest, however, is considered by almost all who know him to be a man of extraordinary sanctity. Ostensibly at any rate, this should not be a case involving deadly violence. And yet it becomes so as McAbee probes into the priest’s past and violence once again erupts into his world.

About the Author

Joe McCaffrey isn't a classics prof or a P.l. But he is a Philosophy Professor at St. Ambrose University in Davenport, Iowa. In 1993, he was named Iowa Professor of the Year in a national competition sponsored by the Council for Advancement and Support of Education. He has served on a number of boards in the state including the Iowa Board of Medical Examiners. He has been president of a junior college, a dean of a graduate school of business, a vice president of academic affairs at a chiropractic university and an academic dean. Currently he teaches Ancient Philosophy and Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy for undergraduates, a leadership seminar and Business Ethics in the St. Ambrose MBA program, and helps oversee the new Doctorate of Business Administration.