Father Rivers witnesses a living miracle, when Willy, the church's mascot goat, becomes an inspiration factor in bringing an abandoned child out of his catatonic state.
Father Hardstep must sacrifice the classic "woody" station wagon to help a bag lady (Jeanette Nolan) after a group of winos, known as "The Magnificent Five," steals the money she had been in to buy a stained glass window for St. Dominic's.
Maude attacks a pimp who is trying to entice her teenage foster daughter. Father Hardstep tries to stop the police from arresting the woman who used buckshot to protect her daughter from a pimp.