Sorrowful Mysteries

Father Raphael Kadir, a six-foot-eight Palestinian-American priest who serves as the Vatican's covert operative, is deployed when 39 Catholic priests are murdered across the United States by a rogue group of deacons demanding the Pope allow priests to marry. The investigation draws Raphael into a world of Knights Templar lore, Oak Island treasure, Freemason conspiracies, and an assassination attempt on the Pope himself.