In Due Season A Catholic Life

Name: In Due Season A Catholic Life
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ISBN: 9780470423332

ISBN-10: 0470423331

ISBN-13: 9780470423332

Edition: 2009

Authors: Paul Wilkes, Wilkes

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Paul Wilkes wanted to be like social justice advocate Dorothy Day, and spend his life with the poor. He wanted to be like Thomas Merton, and spend his life behind monastery walls, in prayer. He failed on both accounts. He only became himself.One of America's most respected writers on religious belief and spirituality, Paul Wilkes' search for God begins in a poor, working class family in Cleveland and winds through lonely nights in a factory, working his way through college; a surprising confrontation during the Cuban Missile Crisis; a torrid romance on the Indian Ocean; acceptance into an Ivy League school; the "perfect" marriage, which would fail.A man who seemingly had everything, one day…

Book details

List price: $18.99
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Limited
Publication date: 4/3/2009
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 320
Size: 6.30" wide x 9.30" long x 1.12" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English



Author's Note


Introduction


Formation



The Seventh Child



A Vision



High School: The Man in the Ten-Way Suit



Coming Home, Leaving Home



College: Red Arrow Park



At Sea



One Hot Day ... and Night


Making It



A Young Reporter



The Big Time, More or Less



Home, Again



On the Streets


Unmaking It



Chips Days



Present



The Pilgrimage



Not Present



The Sofa



80 Winthrop



The Scent of a Woman


As Good As it Gets?



On the Playing Fields of the Hamptons



The Perfect Girl for You



Tracy


Getting Bearings



The Hermit



Almost



A Place to Park



Father Greer


Life, Lived



The Writing Life



A Monk, at Last



Why? Why Not?


Returning



Kolinovce



Worthy or Not



Return to St. Peter's



A Light in the Window


Acknowledgments


The Author