Father Joe

Description for FATHER JOE: THE MAN WHO SAVED MY SOUL by Tony Hendra: A key comic writer of the past three decades has created his most heartfelt and hard-hitting book. Father Joe is Tony Hendra?ÇÖs inspiring true story of finding faith, friendship, and family through the decades-long influence of a surpassingly wise Benedictine monk named Father Joseph Warrillow. Like everything human, it started with sex. In 1955, fourteen-year-old Tony found himself entangled with a married Catholic woman. In Cold War England, where Catholicism was the subject of news stories and Graham Greene bestsellers, Tony was whisked off by the woman?ÇÖs husband to see a priest and be saved. Yet what he found was a far cry from the priests he?ÇÖd known at Catholic school, where boys were beaten with belts or set upon by dogs. Instead, he met Father Joe, a gentle, stammering, ungainly Benedictine who never used the words ?ǣwrong?ǥ or ?ǣguilt,?ǥ who believed that God was in everyone and that ?ǣthe onl