Autism and Holy Orders: How to help seminarians with autism become effective priests

Autism and Holy Orders: How to help seminarians with autism become effective priestsI have been waiting for decades for such a book to appear. I have taught men in pre ordination formation at several seminaries and universities, in the United States and in Rome, and I have seen far too many men suffer needlessly because of misunderstanding of their condition Autism and Holy Orders will be useful for faculty and formators, bishops and abbots. But my hope is that it will gain a much wider audience. It should be read by parents of boys

My family and friends are unsupportive

these poems in prose (proems) by Samuel Hazo will say things to readers – and especially poets – that they will relish and remember

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which he called “formative spirituality

Personal without forsaking wit and plainspoken without forsaking elegance

“Isacco and Tirabassi simplify discernment in this concise

a seemingly effortless meter and a nimble facility with rhyme

we have lost a poet who had been working at the height of her powers

and elsewhere

Her poems have appeared in Flint Hills Review

This book shines a light on his quiet work in the last three decades—work accomplished in the churches

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