The greater glory : thirty-seven years with the Jesuits / Stephen Casey.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Casey, Stephen.

Series:

Footprints (Cheltenham, England)

Footprints series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Casey, Stephen.

Jesuits--Canada--Biography.

Jesuits.

Canada.

Genre:

Biographies.

Autobiographies.

Physical Description:

xi, 243 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates : portraits ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2007]

Summary:

Stephen Casey was twenty-one when he entered the Jesuit Order in Canada in 1947. The striving for Christian perfection eventually led him to depression and a complete breakdown - he almost lost his ability to speak. After thirty-seven years as a Jesuit he left the priesthood. The Greater Glory is a candid memoir about a way of life that, after fifteen hundred years, is disappearing. Casey offers a vivid and incisive portrayal of the seminary, especially the training for novices - the physical and spiritual discipline, the asceticism, the anxieties that surrounded the socialization of young seminarians, the struggles that their chosen careers held for them.Casey also describes growing up in Winnipeg during the Depression in a comfortable but strict Catholic household, offering an intriguing look at childhood during that period as well as revealing his painful experience with a pedophile priest. But it is his critique of life in the Jesuit Order that lies at the heart of the book.

Contents:

1 221 Yale 3

2 The Nuns 27

3 Scruples 38

4 "Soft Lydian Airs" 51

5 "Elected Silence" 67

6 Repetition 107

7 No Kant 116

8 "Get the Grass Seed" 144

9 The "Ad Grad" 154

10 The Third Degree 173

11 Scotland Yard 183

12 Sleeping with the Mummy 195

13 The Greater Glory 214

14 "Pastures New" 230.

Notes:

Includes index.

ISBN:

9780773532434

0773532439

OCLC:

74028973