1970, Knopf

Their commitment to Catholicism is total. Their conscientious rebellion send tremors through the hierarchy of the Church, to which they are devoted. Their revolutionary action in the service of God confounds the secular establishment. Their voices speak directly to the young and the disinherited. The dissenting priests here brilliantry portrayed embody the radical thrust within the Roman Catholic Church today. (David Kirk, The Berrigan Brothers Daniel and Philip, Ivan Illich)...the conscience and character of these men - and their colleagues in the rebellion - are penetrated in Francine du Plessix Gray's richly informed, dramatic, and resonant book. Her account of their exploits throws light on the nature of radicalism rooted in fundamental Christian principles. She shows how these impassioned revolutionaries are, in the most basic sense, true progeny of the Church - and makes understood through their lives the "divine disobedience" that she believes to be today "the clearest sign of the enduring vigor of the Catholic faith."

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