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In Sacred Silence, Father Sal Galvez, a long-time pastor serving in a Catholic archdiocese in Southern California, is abruptly removed from his parish without due process. Feeling like an outcast, he turns to sport fishing as he grapples with the abuses inflicted on him by the leaders of the archdiocese. After a meeting with Pope Francis, Father Sal feels a radical change from within - and finally, healing begins.Loreto N. Gonzales Jr. has been a Catholic priest for more than four decades. During that time, he has been infected with "the cancer that kills from within" - the church's failure to honestly communicate about the abuses of power and the sexual abuse of minors within the church walls, at the hands of its leaders. Gonzales wrote Sacred Silence to inspire parishioners and the Catholic community to stand up to the abusive power structure of the church, to expose and protest it, and to courageously be a part of a more just and compassionate world.

Lorenzo, a Two-Act Play, is based on the life of Lorenzo Ruiz of Manila, a devoted man who struggles to overcome his guilt and shame for leaving his family in the Philippines, but makes a decisive choice to face his destiny in 17th century Japan. This play is set in Nagasaki during the Shimabara Rebellion in 1637, a rebellion protesting economic hardship and government oppression. It later took a religious front. About 27,000 people joined in the rebellion. The Japanese government of Shogun Iemitsu used fumi-e to identify christians and to force them to renounce their faith. If they refused, they were tortured and then executed.

Nearly all scholars divide Genesis into primeval and patriarchal history, though they debate the precise point of division. One reason advanced to justify the division is a thematic shift. In primeval history, the narrator focuses on the origin and spread of sin, as well as God's consequent curse and judgment on humanity. In patriarchal history, however, the spread of sin theme falls off the radar of most scholars. But these analyses of the primeval and patriarchal narratives are simplistic and inaccurate. In fact, the theme of human sin and the divine curse not only serve as the main themes of the Fall narrative, but they also continue to function as major themes in both the primeval and patriarchal narratives that follow. More particularly, human sin appears to increase at both individual and societal levels. Moreover, just as the primordial sin threatened to derail the advance of God's kingdom and fulfillment of the creation mandate, so the spread of human sin in postlapsarian history threatens to thwart God's redemptive plan, which consists in the restoration of his original creational intentions for divine and human eschatological fullness. This proves true even in the patriarchal narratives where the sins of God's chosen often threaten the very promise intended for their ultimate good. These facts, which the author attempts to demonstrate in the monograph, not only have important ramifications for the unity of the Genesis corpus, but they also have important implications for the doctrines of sin, justification, and sanctification.