The Priest Author:Ralph McInerny You are the priest. You want to suceed you want to serve, and you want to love. But now all the rules are out. People are not the way they once were. And you, the priest, are not the way priest once were. Never before has a conflict of modern times been so graphically presented. A huge cast of characters borne on the storm clouds of contem... more »porary life move about the life of Father frank Ascue, as his youth is wrested from him and he becomes both priest and man. From the day this novel was published in hardcover, readers took this startling book to heart. Reviewers noted its daring and its riveting narrative drive. Readers grabbed up over 200,000 hardcover copies. Now hundreds of thousnads of more readers are discovering the mystery, the [passions, the courage of one of fiction's most extraordinary heros- Frank Ascue-a man, the priest.« less