In Sacred Silence, Father Sal Galvez, a long-time pastor serving in a Catholic archdiocese in Southern California, is abruptly removed from his parish without due process. Feeling like an outcast, he turns to sport fishing as he grapples with the abuses inflicted on him by the leaders of the archdiocese. After a meeting with Pope Francis, Father Sal feels a radical change from within - and finally, healing begins. Loreto N. Gonzales Jr. has been a Catholic priest for more than four decades. During that time, he has been infected with "the cancer that kills from within" - the church's failure to honestly communicate about the abuses of power and the sexual abuse of minors within the church walls, at the hands of its leaders. Gonzales wrote Sacred Silence to inspire parishioners and the Catholic community to stand up to the abusive power structure of the church, to expose and protest it, and to courageously be a part of a more just and compassionate world.