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A Year Inside a Catholic Seminary
Houghton Mifflin
April 2007
On Sale: April 10, 2007
320 pages
ISBN: 0618872140
EAN: 9780618872145
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Non-Fiction
There are now a record sixty-four million Catholics in the
United States, yet the number of priests is plummeting so
fast that hundreds of parishes nationwide are closing down.
Against this turbulent backdrop, Englert chart the journey
of five men toward the priesthood at a seminary that
specialize in “second-career” priests — men who come to
their vocation later than the college years. We meet a
divorced father and avid hunter from Wyoming, a ex-salesman
and Marine with ADHD, a recently widowed father of four, a
blind musician, and others. With wit and sometimes
heartbreaking candor, they face the challenges of priestly
life — from the traditional hurdles of obedience and
chastity to more modern travails, like the bad press let
loose by recent sexual abuse scandals and the skepticism of
their friends and families. For each man, these challenges
are intensified by their past experiences as they sacrifice
familiar comforts to answer their calling.
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