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Fr. Joseph Esper

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Rev. Joseph Esper has written articles that have appeared in Fidelity, The Priest, and Homiletic & Pastoral Review. He is author of After the Darkness: A Catholic Novel of the Coming of the Antichrist and the End of the World (Queenship Publishing, 1997).

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