Fans of McInerny's Father Dowling novels (Ash Wednesday, etc.) will welcome this collection of 15 short stories featuring the compassionate priest of St. Hilary's church in Fox River, Ill., and such ...

The engaging 24th Father Dowling mystery (after 2004's Requiem for a Realtor) explores the moral ambiguities of the choices people make in the wake of a young woman's unwanted pregnancy. McInerny uses ...

Frank Dowling is a priest whose views on religion are somewhat liberated and also has a penchant for solving mysteries. He now has to solve the mystery of a young man who's obsessed with finding his ...

Though he died in 1960, Father Dowling foresaw (and hoped for) many of the changes in the Catholic Church initiated by the Second Vatican Council—most notably, the active participation of the laity in ...

The case at hand finds Father Dowling and Sister Steve investigating the apparent suicide of a former parishioner. In between saying Mass, hearing confessions and managing the softball team, Father ...

Edward Dowling, S.J., third row, far left, at St. Stanislaus Seminary, Florissant, Mo., on June 7, 1921. (Courtesy of Jesuit Archives & Research Center) When 21-year-old Edward Dowling entered ...