Los curas comunistas

Synopsis of Los curas comunistas

«Los curas comunistas» is the novel by José Luis Martín Vigil, published by Editorial Juventud in paperback (330 pages, in Spanish).

Father Francisco, a worker-priest, works as an unprivileged laborer. The hierarchy does not understand his humbling himself in servile tasks or his attempt to convert those it considers unconvertible; the workers distrust him as a possible spy of the ruling class. The novel reflects on religion, politics, and social justice.

The work was published in 1975; the title sometimes appears with «comunistas» in quotation marks.

For those interested in novels with social and ideological background and in the role of the worker clergy in 20th-century Spain.