TY - SER KW - Roman Catholics KW - Pennsylvania Railroad KW - Pittsburgh Pirates KW - Vietnam War KW - abortion KW - Pennsylvania Dutch KW - priests AU - William Michaels AB - The tumultuous story of Alex Stribling, a young Roman Catholic priest assigned to a parish in his hometown, struggles against lust with the locals. C1 - 1955-68 C3 - Allegheny Mountains; Blair County; Altoona; Cambria County; Johnstown C4 - Romance; Christian CY - New York LA - English M3 - Novel N2 - The tumultuous story of Alex Stribling, a young Roman Catholic priest assigned to a parish in his hometown, struggles against lust with the locals. PB - St. Martin's Press PP - New York PY - 1989 RN - William Michaels is a fiction writer and the author of a thriller called The Night They Stole Manhattan. EP - 474 p. TI - The Sacred and the Profane ER -