The Saints Are Coming: A Rebel Priest, a Daring Woman and Their Years of Living Dangerously - Softcover

Gregory Jordan

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9781627850124: The Saints Are Coming: A Rebel Priest, a Daring Woman and Their Years of Living Dangerously

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ISBN 10: 1627850120 ISBN 13: 9781627850124

Publisher: Twenty-Third Publications, 2014

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The gripping, true story of a parish community set in one of the most violent places on earth: the Anapra barrio in Juarez, Mexico. Kevin Mullins, a rowdy Australian priest, and his housekeeper Rayna risk everything to build a parish while dealing with murderous drug cartels, oppressive poverty, powerful cults, roving street gangs, and crooked government officials. As homes burn, people disappear, and bodies are discovered, Father Kevin and Rayna battle to keep their parishioners alive while transforming the community into a force against evil. The page-turning, thought-provoking narrative is told with unflinching honesty by author and journalist Greg Jordan. Perfect for parish reading groups, this is an illuminating tale of spiritual resistance, and the church s mission in a dangerous and complex world. Supplemental reading guide included.

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About the Author:

Greg Jordan is the author of Safe at Home (Triumph Books), now being made into a motion picture, and he assisted Mark Shriver on A Good Man: Rediscovering My Father, Sargent Shriver (St. Martin s Griffin Press).

Review:

If Pope Francis signals the transformation of the Catholic Church, then this book—a powerful story of courage and mercy, of gutsy faith—embodies what Francis so perfectly calls “a poor Church for the poor.” Greg Jordan propels us into the midst of this gripping story of danger and redemption with the tenacity of a seasoned journalist. --Mark Shriver, author of A Good Man:Rediscovering My Father, Sargent Shriver

Conversion is a slow and complex process, however fundamental a part of the spiritual life it may be. Read this book: you’ll find yourself immersed in your own spiritual transformation. --Joan Chittister, OSB, author of The Breath of the Soul

Gregory Jordan tells a moving tale of human dignity, faith, and love in the everyday lives of people struggling to survive in Borderland. Without ignoring the political realities and moral ambiguities, he finds genuine hope in the midst of despair. --Mark C. Taylor, Chair, Department of Religion, Columbia University

Greg Jordan’s The Saints Are Coming examines the intricacies and possibilities of the relationship between the faith of the heart and the works of the hand. Like his subjects, the priest and the housekeeper, Jordan exhorts us to go in with our eyes wide open, to learn about lives and worlds that it would be easier to ignore. And he generously and empathetically reminds us that if you can see, you must act. --Karen Shepard author of The Celestials and Don’t I Know You?

In this gem of a book, Greg Jordan quietly draws the reader right into the scene with three compelling characters as their relationship deepens—a committed missionary priest, his housekeeper, and the parish handyman. They develop a parish community in the face of daunting and deadly challenges in an impoverished Mexican barrio on the border where poverty, drug wars, violence, and exploitation dictate every day. The story is salted with their rich personal reflection. Jordan puts the reader right with them, saints living season by season with hope. --Rev. Otto Hentz, SJ, Professor of Theology, Georgetown University

This intense, riveting story grabs hold of you and won’t let go. Back in my Hollywood days, this is the kind of eloquent and evocative book that I would have loved to turn into a compelling film. Gregory Jordan’s grippingly vivid writing has a real cinematic feel to it as he presents very human, flawed, contemporary saints. --Gerard Thomas Straub, author of The Loneliness and Longing of Saint Francis

Greg Jordan’s terrific non-fiction account is not just stunning, first-rate reporting on the Catholic response to poverty and violence in Juarez, “the most dangerous place on earth,” but an inspiring and fascinatingly intimate look at a Mexican parish from the perspectives of both its John Wayne of a pastor and his wise,resilient housekeeper. In its psychological complexity, richness of detail, and discerning sympathy for its main characters, The Saints Are Coming reads like a novel worthy of Graham Greene. --Ron Hansen, author of Mariette in Ecstasy, Atticus,and A Wild Surge of Guilty Passion

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