The Trolls Of God

February, 1977

The Trolls of GodChanging Planes in Chicago, Father Buddy Hovacks, a balding, crewcut priest in a black suit too small for him across the shoulders, stopped at a shelf of phones to call ahead. As his connection was being made, he noticed a proper, smooth-faced old nun on a folding stool beside the flight-insurance counter across the way. When anyone stopped to buy insurance, she would speak to him, describing her order's training school for girls in Nicaragua and asking him to take out a second...