Priests leaving Priesthood - Shattered Vows

First Edition widely acclaimed Paperback, 280 unmarked pages, by David Rice, former Augustinian priest, on the worst Crisis in the Priesthood
THE BESTSELLING BOOK EXPOSING THE CELIBACY CONTROVERSY IN THE CHURCH

'Do you want me to tell you what is my greatest worry? I do not mean as a human being, but as a pope, I am continually vexed by the thought of those young priests who so courageously carry the burden of ecclesiastical celibacy. For some among them it is a martyrdom. Yes, a kind of martyrdom. It seems to me I hear a sort of complaint... as if voices were asking the church to take that burden away from them.'
Pope John XXIII, 1963

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'I know of no study of the current state of the Catholic priesthood that compares with this. The priesthood is in a state of crisis, probably the worst in the Church's history. Yet no one has researched the subject as well as David Rice. No one has listened to resigned priests with such wisdom and sympathy. Often their stories are more startling than any that come out of Hollywood. The result is not merely depressing, for Shattered Vows points the way to a ministry that is less clerical and more genuinely Christ-like.
'a well-documented study concerning one of the most urgent problems of the present Church. This book is at the same time an outcry for changing the present disastrous policy.'
Professor Hans Küng
'Despite the anguish it portrays, Shattered Vows is an immensely heartening and encouraging book.'