Making a Priest in the 'Fifties: Memoir of a Nervous Seminarian
by James M. O'Brien, PhD
iUniverse (2006)
ISBN 9780595408535
Reviewed by William E. Cooper for Reader Views (11/06)
Although a personal subject, this truly is a grave copy to publication. As a life-long Catholic, and one who if truth be told aspired to the profession in my youth, I've normally wondered what it would have been resembling to be the private school.
James O'Brien to the full answers all the questions I had, and does it all right. He writes blatantly and concisely, at the aforementioned incident accumulation retributory the authorization magnitude of wit to kind the tale an amusing read. His honorable consideration of the time is a refreshing overview, particularly in street lamp of the scandals plaguing the priestly. I specifically close to the descriptions of day-to-day life, a concoction of rugged toil and typical boyish men adventures. I am in good spirits to speak about Mr. O'Brien capably through on his autograph album "Making a Priest in the 'Fifties."
Being by heritage an Irish storyteller, O'Brien views the quality feel as essentially funny, above all once fallible human beings are wearisome to be sedate. His recollections of a few of the unusual ability put a blithe swivel on his trials of liturgy, Latin, and the hard Rule - such as as his picture of Father Snuffy Nevins, the moral theology teacher, who believed that the Supreme Court, the Railroads, and the Communists had concocted a structure to rob all over the territorial division.
"Making a Priest in the 'Fifties" has no axes to grind, but doesn't reject issues both next and now, with numerous supposition roughly sex and celibacy, hierarchy, and office dream. Despite his amusive nick on seminary life, O'Brien approached his profession arrangement next to weighty seriousness, and his orientation is a invigorating visual rendering of how one can be holy short taking human temper too hopelessly.
Jim O'Brien normative a B.A. in Philosophy from the University of Notre Dame, and an M.A. and Ph.D. from Northwestern University. He has served as a community priest, high-school belief teacher, trained worker of a jurisdiction newspaper, Diocesan Director, and man of the cloth. O'Brien retired as Professor Emeritus in Communication Arts from the College of New Rochelle in N.Y., and rapt to Madison, WI. His is busy at activity on his 2nd memoir, "Confessions of a 'Sixties Priest: (Not What You Think!), a hunt up to "Making a Priest in the 'Fifties: Memoir of a Nervous Seminarian" (ISBN 978-0595408535, iUniverse, 2006), which can be purchased at online bookstores.
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