Here a diocesan priest is sharing, emotionally as well as pastorally, some of the challenges that church teaching and discipline put before God's people. How far may a priest move out of the protection of clericalism into honest dialogue and fraternity with troubled Catholics and unchurched young people? This book is the personal story of one man's journey into Catholic Communion and his continuing ministry of 47 years as a priest. He has felt the need to call into question those things that obviously do not reflect gospel attitudes, and openly confronts a range of contemporary church issues.