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Why does a gifted boy from a privileged Establishment background decide, at the age of twelve, to spend his life as a priest? And what moves him, after six happy years in the Anglican priesthood, to enter the alien world of Roman Catholicism? In a gripping narrative full of humor and self-directed irony, John Jay Hughes tells of the loss of his mother at age six, entry into the Catholic Church at the cost of estrangement from his beloved Anglican priest-father, his lifelong search for God in prayer, and his joy in priesthood, 'all I ever wanted from age twelve.'

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John Jay Hughes is the son and grandson of Anglican priests and a direct descendant of United States Founding Father and first Chief Justice, John Jay. A priest of the St. Louis archdiocese and church historian, Father Hughes is the author of ten previously published books, has taught at universities on both sides of the Atlantic, served as pastor of three parishes, and in diocesan administration.

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