Nobody Calls Me Father Anymore

A retired Catholic priest relates his experience of the changing face of the priesthood from seminary to retirement. What he writes about those turbulent and challenging years from 1950 to 2010 reveals the personal and at times the very difficult journey of a parish priest. With remarkable clarity and detail Fr. Gonser shares his story of more than fifty years of priesthood in the Diocese of Cleveland. Young and older readers laity and priests will be fascinated or reminded about the tumult of those years. An intriguing journey! Rev. Albert A. Krupp Delegate for Senior Priests Diocese of Cleveland While nobody may call him Father anymore Richard Gonser writes movingly about the mystery of grace working in his own life and in the lives of the people he served and loved. His memoir captures his quiet fidelity to Gospel values in the challenging year following the Second Vatican Council. Rev. Donald Cozzens author of Notes from the Underground: The Spiritual Journey of a Secular Priest.