In Part 2 Chapter 1 of Graham Greene’s The Power and the Glory, the priest is traveling, hoping to escape the government. He first makes it to a tiny village, where the mother of his child and his child, Maria and Brigitta, live and he stays long enough to check in with both of them, as well as hold a small mass for the town, before moving on to keep avoiding the authorities. Taking a mule, he starts to head towards Carmen and eventually runs into a mestizo, or half-caste as he’s referred to as well, who insists on traveling together for safety because he knows where Carmen is and there’s a crazy gringo on the loose, who is actually the priest. The whole book so far, the priest has been grappling with his faith, as he believes in the word of God but knows he has sinned and is not a good man, but doesn’t know how to do better while he’s trying to survive and he believes there are people more deserving of salvation than him. Through talking with the mestizo, the priest slowly figures out that the man knows he is the priest the government is looking for and that the mestizo is planning on turning him in for the reward. However, the priest wants to avoid arrest for longer and decides to send the mestizo to Carmen alone once they are close enough. The mestizo, who is sick and is being carried by the mule to Carmen, ends up shouting at the priest, “Call yourself a Christian…If I see you again, you can’t blame me…’ Of course, he had every reason to be angry: he had lost seven hundred pesos,” (Greene, 105). The priest’s acceptance of the taunt and threat are interesting because the mestizo is saying that the priest is not a true Christian because he is not willing to help his fellow man, even though in helping him, the priest would surely end up dying. But by having the intention to practically forfeit someone’s life for money, that makes the mestizo a bad christiand as well, and the priest isn’t angry cause he knows the man is trying to survive. And so a question is brought forth of what is the right thing to do in this case: as a christian, should the priest help someone at his own detriment, or should he be allowed to save himself? With or without the religious aspect, this question can apply to the question of living one’s truth that has been brought up many times in relation to serving corrupt governments or not. For example, in the A Hidden Life movie, Franz speaks to a Bishop about his problem of not wanting to assist with Hitler’s war because he does not believe it to be right, he’d rather live by his truth. The Bishop’s response is that, “You have a duty to the Fatherland… The church tells you so,” advising Franz to follow orders and be a good citizen, as that’s what God says. But after a moment, the Bishop adds, “Do you hear those bells? They’re melting them for bullets,” (A Hidden Life, 32 minutes).That question shows that despite what he just said, the Bishop also believes that the war is wrong, as it’s murdering innocents which is something God is very much against, but it’s complicated because there are two individual words of God contradicting, and it’s up to an individual to decide what to do; live their truth or do what they are told?