The Grand Inquisitor - A Graphic Novel

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The Grand Inquisitor  - A graphic novel by John Zmirak and Carla Millar.

"Zmirak's work is typically . . . well, not typical. . . . Carla Millar's illustrations bring flesh and blood to the text. The result is a sort of action movie in Miltonic verse." —InsideCatholic.com

This updating of Dostoevsky’s fable will challenge believers of every hue, and fascinate students of religion, philosophy and literature. The first graphic novel written in Miltonic blank verse, is exquisitely illustrated and promises to change the genre forever.

The pope is dead. The Church is split. A rump conclave elects the first Black African pope in history, a hero who saved his people from persecution in Sudan. But a hostile cardinal kidnaps the new pope at the airport and holds him in secret at a mental hospital. To the captive, uncrowned pope "the Grand Inquisitor" lays out a dark conspiracy he has nurtured for 50 years to offer mankind salvation without the Cross. Will the new pope sign on to this "improved" version of Christianity? Will he end up dead? What obsessions join him to his enemy, and make his new vision so very tempting?

John Zmirak is a journalist, screenwriter, political commentator, and writer-in-residence at Thomas More College of the Liberal Arts.  He is the author of The Bad Catholic’s Guide to Good Living and The Bad Catholic’s Guide to Wine, Whiskey, and Song and an editor of Choosing the Right College. He lives in Nashua, New Hampshire.

A Dark Tale of Despair and Hope

The Grand Inquisitor begins with the death of Pope Paul VIII sometime in the not too distant future.  His 20 year pontificate is typical of most popes throughout history, i.e. it was full of discord amongst different movements in the Church; however, we are given the impression that he wasn’t very good at reigning in the more unruly member of the flock.  The simplest classification of this particular fight would be some of what we see today with the modernists vs the traditionalist, though I hate using those loaded terms.  The modernists in this case are those that want the culture to evangelize the Church, pushing for such things as women's ordination, a democratic hierarchy, contraception, etc.  The traditionalists hold onto a hermeneutic of continuity in both theology and external traditions.
 
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