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When Hugh Donlon chooses the priesthood over his love for Maria Manfredy, he begins a series of events that will see him become disillusioned and disgraced as well as wealthy and powerful--with a chance to choose again.Tags
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Hugh Donlon - priest, out - marries nun - Liz - then Maria always there
As he so movingly revealed in the bestselling The Cardinal Sins and Thy Brother's Wife, Father Andrew Greeley knows tragedy and frustration, the power and the glory, of the priest's role in contemporary life. In his new novel, Ascent into Hell, he illuminates the pain of choice--the dilemma of a priest catapulted by changing times into rethinking his chosen pathway through life.
As he so movingly revealed in the bestselling The Cardinal Sins and Thy Brother's Wife, Father Andrew Greeley knows tragedy and frustration, the power and the glory, of the priest's role in contemporary life. In his new novel, Ascent into Hell, he illuminates the pain of choice--the dilemma of a priest catapulted by changing times into rethinking his chosen pathway through life.
Hugh Donlon, a lonely, troubled priest, falls in love with a nun, leaves the clergy, and returns to the temptations of the secular life
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Roman Catholic priest Andrew M. Greeley was the author of more than 100 non-fiction works of theology, sociology, prayer, and poetry; a professor of sociology; a newspaper columnist; and a successful novelist, writing in several genres, including mystery and science fiction. He was born on February 5, 1928 and was a native of Chicago. Greeley show more studied at Archbishop Quigley Preparatory Seminary and earned an AB from St. Mary of the Lake Seminary in 1950, a Bachelor of Sacred Theology in 1952, and a Licentiate of Sacred Theology in 1954. He went on to receive a Master of Arts in 1961 and a Ph D in 1962. Greeley's fiction, which often told stories of crime and scandal in the Roman Catholic church, can be violent and lurid and are considered controversial by many Church leaders. Greeley wrote on such issues as homosexuality in the clergy, pedophilia, and papal politics, and he created the popular mystery series starring Father Blackie Ryan, as well as another featuring the character Nuala McGrail. Greeley was awarded honorary degrees from the University of Arizona, Bard College (New York State) and the National University of Ireland, Galway. In 1981, he received the F. Sadlier Dinger Award, which is presented each year by educational publisher William H. Sadlier, Inc. in recognition of his outstanding contribution to the ministry of religious education in America. Greeley died on May 29, 2013 at his Chicago home. He was 85. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Ascent into Hell
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- Ascent Into Hell
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- 1983
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