Reclaiming Our Priestly Character

Reclaiming Our Priestly Character offers a review of the present crisis surrounding priestly identity through careful theological scholarship and a wise and practical spirituality, providing a clear path toward the renewal of the priestly character. An essential guide for every priest and seminarian.

Review by Avery Cardinal Dulles, S.J. – New York, NY   (Tuesday, January 15, 2008):

"If the priesthood is to be renewed and it surely must be the renewal must take the form described by Father Toups. With clarity, simplicity, and a thorough mastery of the literature, he shows that the essence of the ministerial priesthood consists in the sacramental character that configures the ordained to Christ the High Priest."