Unexpected Company

<p>In the years before the Second Vatican Council great numbers of young men typically just out of high school entered a Jesuit novitiate to begin the thirteen-year march to the priesthood. Most would leave the Jesuits sometimes long after ordination and the question often is whether they failed their church or their church failed them.</p><p>In often brutally frank disclosures a number of these former Jesuits talk about their lives: why they became novices and took lifetime vows and then why they left sometimes just walking away after years in the priesthood.</p><p>What they have to say about themselves exposes a world once shrouded in secrecy.</p>