Former Vatican correspondent Brian Murphy chronicles a year in the lives of six American seminarians, six "New Men, " as they enter the Vatican's "West Point for priests" - the North American College in Rome - and struggle to leave a world in which they were great successes, for a life of service, celibacy, and self-denial. Each of these men - a top-gun Air Force pilot, a high-living New Orleans lawyer, a pair of brilliant twins from the top of their class at Harvard, a farm boy from North Dakota, and a Vietnamese refugee who survived the fall of Saigon - must adjust to an entirely new way of living, must find his own way through prayer, meditation, and honest scrutiny of his innermost doubts and fears.
- ISBN10 1573226998
- ISBN13 9781573226998
- Publish Date 1 December 1998 (first published 13 October 1997)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Publisher Penguin Putnam Inc
- Imprint Riverhead Books,U.S.
- Format Paperback
- Pages 292
- Language English