Former Vatican correspondent Brian Murphy chronicles a year in the lives of six American seminarians, six "New Men, " as they enter the Vatican's "West Point for priests" - the North American College in Rome - and struggle to leave a world in which they were great successes, for a life of service, celibacy, and self-denial. Each of these men - a top-gun Air Force pilot, a high-living New Orleans lawyer, a pair of brilliant twins from the top of their class at Harvard, a farm boy from North Dakota, and a Vietnamese refugee ...
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Former Vatican correspondent Brian Murphy chronicles a year in the lives of six American seminarians, six "New Men, " as they enter the Vatican's "West Point for priests" - the North American College in Rome - and struggle to leave a world in which they were great successes, for a life of service, celibacy, and self-denial. Each of these men - a top-gun Air Force pilot, a high-living New Orleans lawyer, a pair of brilliant twins from the top of their class at Harvard, a farm boy from North Dakota, and a Vietnamese refugee who survived the fall of Saigon - must adjust to an entirely new way of living, must find his own way through prayer, meditation, and honest scrutiny of his innermost doubts and fears.
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Very Good. Very Good condition. Very Good dust jacket. A copy that may have a few cosmetic defects. May also contain a few markings such as an owner's name, short gifter's inscription or light stamp.
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Fine in Fine jacket. 8vo-over 7æ"-9æ" tall. Hardcover in originanal non price-clipped dust-jacket. 292pp., First edition, first printing. No previous ownership marks. "P" stamped on upper edge as remainder mark, else an as new copy. A very clean, square, fresh copy. Fine in a fine dust-jacket.
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Very Good. 293p. A hardcover book in near-fine condition with a like dustjacket. Faint crease in the spine; otherwise clean and tight, and jacket fully intact. An account of the North American College in Rome.
