by Kevin Wells

Dr. J's recommendation:

Do Catholics have the priests we need, or the priests we deserve?

Kevin Wells is fully convinced that holy priests can save the Church and society, by pouring themselves out for their flocks. We need the priests, first of all, to be good fathers. We need them to tell us the fullness of the truth, especially, but not exclusively about the “hard teachings” of Jesus about marriage, family and human sexuality.

The book (and my interview with Kevin Wells) opens with Kevin and his wife’s experience of infertility. One priest told them to do whatever their conscience told them. One priest steered them rightly. An inspiring “story within the story.”

A perfect gift for:

• Young couples struggling with infertility
• Anyone of any age trying to understand what it means to be a man.
• Young husbands trying to understand and live faithfully their roles as fathers and husbands.
• Young wives who want to appreciate and understand their husbands’ roles.
• Young men considering the priesthood
• The priests in your life

I interview Kevin Wells on Episode 7 of The Dr. J Show.

Highly recommended for both the EDUCATE and ADVOCACY steps of the 3-Step plan.

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.