Voice from the desert
Subtitle: a bishop's cry for a new church
By: Jacques Gaillot ; translated by Joseph Cunneen & Léon King.
Publisher: Crossroad Pub. Co.
Published: 1996
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 116
Subjects: Gaillot, Jacques, 1935-; Catholic Church -- Controversial literature.; Catholic Church -- Pastoral letters and charges.; Catholic Church -- France -- History -- 20th century.; Imaginary letters.; France -- Moral conditions.; France -- Social conditions -- 1945-; France -- Church history -- 1945-
Description: In January, 1995, thousands took to the streets in France. Their cause? An advocate for the poor...a champion for the rights of AIDS patients, homosexuals, and other social outcasts...a friend to non-believers...a critic of Catholic Church rules...and beloved bishop of the diocese of Evreux: Jacques Gaillot.

The Vatican, judging Gaillot to be disobedient to authority and harmful to church unity, "relocated" him to a desert diocese in Moslem North Africa that had effectively ceased to exist thirteen centuries before: Partenia. Partenia today is no more than a phantom diocese.

. The action made international headlines as not only French Catholics but many throughout Europe and the United States expressed outrage. For them, Gaillot had been the hopeful sign of a new church. Voice from the Desert is Gaillot's visionary letter to his new flock, the church in Partenia. It is, in effect, a pastoral letter to all Catholics. In vibrant, clear, and poetic prose, Bishop Gaillot expresses his dreams for a Catholic Church that exists to serve the people of God.