There is a catch: all religions are now against the law. Since religion was blamed for the last war, the UN wants to make sure that God has nothing more to do with the politics of the world. Mankind has entered a new Dark Age. But, like the early Christians of ancient Rome, an underground resistance has been formed.
Just released from an Alaskan Gulag, Marcellus has served thirty years for heading a Christmas Mass as one of the last Bishops of the Catholic Church. His mission now is to enact a secret program lost in the Vatican Files, known only as "The Christ Project."
Facing NATO soldiers, terrible cannibalistic robots called Exos, forever-spying probes called Sentries, the dead zones on earth known as The Wastelands, and twelve mysterious clones known only as "The Templars", Marcellus uses the powers of science to bring about "The Second Coming."
