This is an amazing book, depicting a world years after 1907. The future the author envisions is far less futuristic than the present--air travel is at only 150 mph! There is not TV nor e-mail, nor, apparently, microphones. Father Percy Franklin is an English priest in a world being lost to the Faith. The ending is stunning and heartening. There is some power in this book, albeit the future seems very dimly perceived so far as sci fi fans would see the book. ( )