Blurb

A boy who grows up Catholic, detests it, and tells his mom he’s an atheist in twelfth grade in order to get out going to mass.  Soon he’s off to engineering school.  Upon graduating, he moves to Los Angeles to pursue a career in electronic circuit design.  He has a profound religious experience while gazing at the ocean and decides to quit his job and dedicate his life to ministry.  He enters a Catholic seminary.  After five years, many adventures, and being privy to some reprehensible acts, he’s ordained a priest.  After a few years of priestly ministry, he decides to leave the Church for a few reasons.  It was a combination of meeting lovely ladies he wanted to date, not wanting to foster a clandestine relationship and feign celibacy, and discovering that there is tremendous growth via romantic love.  He eventually finds his new vocation with pastoral couples counseling, officiating wedding ceremonies, and doing Amazing Intimate Relationships workshops for churches.  Most recently he is focused on writing his memoir and speaking on various Christian topics.  Being a parent has been an exhilarating life-enriching experience.

This coming-of-age story is a raw exposé of the challenges a young man faces when deciding to embrace celibacy, with the irony that he’s still quite attracted to women, romance, and sex.  He chronicles his adventures in adolescent and college life, seminary living, and the fascinating and sometimes scandalous episodes of living the life of a parish priest.

This personal story is funny, poignant, erotic, and scandalous, yet throughout there is a reverence for the Divine.  The reader will be delighted to learn arcane and inspirational Catholic and Christian trivia in the process.  He readily reveals the sins of the organizational Church without malice but rather a fierce love intent on reforming a flawed institution; this is his contribution to a more authentic experience of the Church Jesus intended.