In The Laying on of Hands: Catholic Short Stories for Modern Times, award-winning author Philip J Martin pushes society's predispositions and worldly leanings to their logical end in fiction form. From the beautiful to the absurd and the simple to the grotesque, these stories lay bare secular underpinnings through whatever means necessary. Whether mercy, truth, or redemption finds a heart to grapple depends on the alcoholic, the professor, the grave...