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Enormous prayers : a journey into the priesthood

Author: Thomas Kunkel
Publisher: Boulder, Colo. : Westview Press, 1998.
Edition/Format:   Book : Biography : English
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Thomas Kunkel takes the reader along with him on a personal journey through the United States to meet twenty-eight working priests. Through absorbing portraits that enable each Father to speak for himself, a broad painting of a diverse and changing Catholic Church - and even larger mural of contemporary America - emerges. Kunkel's interviews cut across a wide variety of priests, from those who are part of monastic
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Genre/Form: Biography
Material Type: Biography
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Thomas Kunkel
ISBN: 0813334640 9780813334646
OCLC Number: 37903556
Description: 202 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents: A communion (San Diego) --
Father Benedict Groeschel (New York) --
Monsignor J. Joshua Mundell (Washington, D.C.) --
Father J. Saul Madrid (Phoenix) --
Father Robert Lacombe (Greenville, Rhode Island) --
Monsignor William H. Shannon (Rochester, New York) --
Father John Beal (Washington, D.C.) --
Father John J. Dreese (New Lexington, Ohio) --
Father Roger Griese (Kettering, Ohio) --
Father William Dietsch (Petersburg, Indiana) --
Doctor Jon Fuller (Boston) --
Father Charles Fuld (Escondido, California) --
Father James Conner (Ava, Missouri) --
Father James Sullivan (New Haven, Missouri) --
Father Gregory Le Strange (Fayettville, New York). Father Alfred Burnham (Culver City, California) --
Father Camillus Ellspermann (St. Henry, Indiana) --
Deacon Daniel Leary (Emmitsburg, Maryland) --
Father Egbert Figaro (Chicago) --
Father John Smyth (Des Plaines, Illinois) --
Father Thomas Wenski (Miami) --
Monsignor Ralph Beiting (Louisa, Kentucky) --
Father William Jenkins (Cincinnati) --
Father Robert Kearns (Baltimore) --
Father Peter Gallagher (Indianapolis) --
Fathers John Sullivan and Robert Fisher (Plymouth, Michigan) --
Fathers Michael and John Foley (Worcester, Massachusetts) --
The life everlasting (Nashville).
Responsibility: Thomas Kunkel.
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Abstract:

Thomas Kunkel takes the reader along with him on a personal journey through the United States to meet twenty-eight working priests. Through absorbing portraits that enable each Father to speak for himself, a broad painting of a diverse and changing Catholic Church - and even larger mural of contemporary America - emerges. Kunkel's interviews cut across a wide variety of priests, from those who are part of monastic communities to those who are responsible for parishes in impoverished urban neighborhoods.

Without shying away from the very real problems plaguing the priesthood, Kunkel still manages to provide a humane lens through which to view these mortal men who have taken on the yoke of living a godly life. The result is a compelling, "inside" documentary of present-day Catholicism in the United States.

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