However, if this is not a notion you hold fast and dear to, and can look beyond this and see that under the robes he’s a fallible man, this book is really very good!! So believing that a priest has always been a non-sexual, androgynous being and wanting to continue to believe in that will make this book uncomfortable for those who feel strongly about this. He was a young man and living a fairly typical existence (including sex) when a family tragedy turned him and his family completely upside down and also turned his focus toward the church. He didn’t grow up wanting this for his vocation. But keep in mind, this man, this priest, had not always been a priest. If this is something you are not comfortable with, this might not be the book for you.

I am not Catholic and didn’t feel a strong attachment to this priest being a non-sexual, non-human being with one foot on the Earth and the other up in Heaven a man without having human feelings and human attraction. People who had a difficult time with it or DNF it, in my guesstimation could not deal with a Catholic priest also being a man – and a sexual being at that (and no, this is NOT a priest who preys on anybody, it’s not that kind of a book!) I honestly think that this is a book where to read it and enjoy it, you cannot hold tight to your ideas of what a priest is or isn’t within yourselves. Wow! This book is a trip! There are so very many mixed reviews about it on-line too it’s very controversial! There were a lot of DNF reviews and yet many others left very good reviews.

Priest ella frank