The Priests We Need to Save the Church
Publisher: Sophia Institute Press
Published: August 15, 2019
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9781644130322
Description: While dissolute bishops and priests around the world grab headlines for their untoward words and deeds, too many other unfruitful priests minister as little more than glad-handing bachelors doing social service work.

Top and bottom, is this the Church that Christ intended? Are these the priests we need?

No! cries author Kevin Wells in these compelling pages that showcase how heroic priests can faithfully tread the narrow path of holy self-sacrifice first blazed by the apostles themselves. From scores of insightful interviews with modern priests, exorcists, seminary formators, and even disillusioned laity, Wells here draws forth a blueprint for priestly holiness that can once again fill our Church with priests abounding with sincere, supernatural faith, on fire with God s love, and moved by the irresistible impulse to save souls, no matter the cost to themselves.

Reading this book will deepen your own faith and help you understand what all priests, by their vocation, are consecrated and called to be. Giving a copy to your parish priest will help him and encourage him as he strives to become a member of the small but growing contingent of holy priests we need.
Table of contents: title: Prologue; title: An Ax, a Tomahawk, and the Night of Lights
label: 1.; title: Hot Summer, Cool Priest
label: 2.; title: Be Vianney, Be the Curé
label: 3.; title: Tommy: The Happy Martyr
label: 4.; title: Holiness and Victimhood: The Lone Paths Forward
label: 5.; title: The Eucharistic Glow
label: 6.; title: Our Blessed Mother
label: 7.; title: Prayer: A Priest's Connection to God
label: 8.; title: Asceticism: The Soul-Searching Work of the Priest
label: 9.; title: The Fatherhood of the Priest
label: 10.; title: Availability: The Shepherd's Wellspring of Love
label: 11.; title: The Prophetic Voice in the Desert
label: 12.; title: Carpe Diem
label: 13.; title: Epilogue; title: About the Author