Terence Fitzsimons

Unholy Orders Terence Fitzsimons

Having survived two years of the civil war in Rhodesia, Irish immigrant priest, Father Michael Gale, is tending a parish in the midlands city of Gwelo.



Gwelo should have been a tranquil place, being away from the turmoil of the civil war in the bush. It wasn't.



Father Gale finds himself having to deal with a miscreant curate, called on to act as an exorcist, as well as being caught up in the middle of a marital dispute between two of his African parishioners.



To compound Father Gale's discomfort he locks horns with a racist member of the Rhodesia National Party, with startling results.



Then there are Father Gale's part-time duties as an Army chaplain, attached to a small unit of army engineers. A relief from the pressure of parish work. Wrong!