Catholic Watershed: The Chicago Ordination Class of 1969 and How They Helped Change the Church

A truly extraordinary look at how the Catholic Church has changed since the Second Vatican Council through the experience of six priests. In a series of in-depth interviews, these men, ordained for the Archdiocese of Chicago in 1969, opened up to the author, Michael Cahill, with amazing insight and honesty about their seminary training, their assignments, and their triumphs and disappointments, as well as their relationships with their people, their fellow priests, and the three cardinal archbishops under whom they served. In the process, they reveal much about their own spiritual lives, celibacy, and the sexual abuse crisis - topics that are seldom discussed openly by priests.