num_pages: 211
description: When Father David Callaghan, a young Catholic priest in a small Irish town, discovers his childhood friend has been brutally murdered by extremists, he begins to question how mankind has fallen so far. In search of answers, David takes a sabbatical from the priesthood to travel to Namibia where he volunteers to help on an anthropological experiment with the people believed to be the oldest humans on earth - the San people. Living in the middle of the Kalahari with an eclectic bunch of scientists he finds many of his concepts about life and faith challenged. The inevitable clash of beliefs ultimately compels the priest and the anthropologists to embark on a philosophical battle forcing David to question what it means to stay true to himself. Murder, romance, and poaching all intertwine on this thought-provoking journey deep into the roots of humankind. Will Father David Callaghan unearth the answer to what went wrong in the human saga? Will his faith be restored? Will an unlikely romance restrain him from returning to the priesthood?A dramma with uplifting humor, The Prodigal Priest brings the reader to the center of today's debate over how modern humans came to risk their own existence.
language: English
title: The Prodigal Priest: A Philosophical Journey Into the Roots of Humankind