The Priest Who Became a Gunfighter: The True Story of Father Juan Romero and the Wild West Church by Jeff Callaway
The Priest Who Became a Gunfighter: The True Story of Father Juan Romero and the Wild West Church By Jeff Callaway Texas Outlaw Poet I. A Frontier of Saints and Sinners The sun hangs like a copper coin over the Rio Grande, bleeding heat across a land where the devil walks with dirty boots and blood stains the dust. In a nameless settlement between Laredo and Brownsville, a solitary rider approaches through the mesquite and chaparral. He wears black beneath the Texas sun, a broad-brimmed hat shadowing eyes that have seen men die badly and others die well. On his hip, a rosary. On his other hip, a Colt revolver. Father Juan Romero has come to bring the sacraments to a place where law is a rumor and mercy is measured in calibers. This is not the Church of stained glass and organ music. This is the Church of bloodstained altar stones and Masses said at gunpoint. This is the Wild West Church, where priests rode circuits longer than any outlaw's wanted poster, where the Eucharist was car...
