Father Malachy's Miracle

Father Malachy Murdoch has wrought a miracle. On a seemingly routine Saturday night in Edinburgh, the "Garden of Eden" dance-hall is doing good business when the answer to Father Malachy's request came unexpectedly: the building and its inhabitants are relocated to the island of Bass Rock. The ramifications of this miracle appear to be limitless. The media, church, scientists, and the general people are all looking for an explanation, whether material or spiritual, for how this event might have occurred. Father Malachy stands calmly at the center of the controversy and chaos, scorning both the world's crude excesses and the pusillanimous explications found even among Christians, and laying claim to God's simple saving grace for his wayward sheep.

Brought, at long last, back into print, Father Malachy’s Miracle is just as clever, comedic, and downright enjoyable as the day it first unassumingly appeared as “a heavenly story with an earthly meaning.”