The Priests We Need to Save the Church

“The Priests We Need to Save the Church is an amazing book. Best I have ever read on the priesthood (better than Fulton Sheen on the subject). He interviews some of our best and devoted priests on the way they live their priesthood. Many are truly holy and totally devoted to the Lord, Mary, the Eucharist and the Church. People can write off St. John Vianney (alas) by saying that was 150 years ago. Things are different now. But many of the priests in Kevin’s book are still living. What an inspiring book. Every seminarian in the country should read this book. This is just what we need to save the Church!
Rev. Thomas G. Morrow
Author, Overcoming Sinful Anger“This is the book we need to sort through the moral chaos inflicting Catholicism in the modern world. Kevin Wells incisively identifies the problem in the Church and, through his careful thought, prayer, and research, clears the path for priests and laity to solve it.”
Matt Walsh
Writer, author, speaker of the religious right“The story of the spiritual father Msgr. Thomas Wells, the author’s ‘Uncle Tommy,’ leaves us wishing we knew him before his murder in 2001. The descriptive power and eternal truths of this book make it a tribute, an indictment, and a prayer form the priesthood.”
Patti Armstrong
Author and Journalist, The National Catholic Register

“This book is a salutary challenge to what can become an all-too-comfortable life. Kevin Wells, and the lives of the exemplary priests he describes, set out to identify and heal the ills of the modern priesthood and set us back on the path to sanctity. The Church will always be rocked with scandals until its priests become saints.”
Stephen J. Rossetti, PhD, DMin,
Research Associate Professor, Catholic University of America

“Kevin Wells’ book is the long-overdue dynamite required to wake up a generation of hesitant priests and sleeping laity unwilling to embrace full Catholic identity in a post-Christian culture.”
Jeremy Tate
CEO, Classic Learning Test

“A timely, relevant, soul-searching read!”
Kathleen Beckman, L.H.S.
Author, Praying for Priests:A Call for the Salvation of Souls
President, Foundation of Prayer for Priests

One of the most important books written in years involving the ugly dilemma that threatens to swallow the Catholic Church. It s a must read for every Catholic wanting to understand both the source and depth of its tragic, self-inflicted wounds as well as the potential path toward forgiveness, healing and survival.
John Heubusch
Executive Director of the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation and best-selling author the fictional thriller The Shroud Conspiracy –Personal Endorsements

 

Kevin Wells is a former sports reporter with the Tampa Tribune, where he covered Major League Baseball and other sports. He is the author of Burst, A Story of God’s Grace When Life Falls Apart. He is a freelance writer and evangelist, addressing various Catholic topics. Wells is President of the Monsignor Thomas Wells Society for Vocations, which financially and prayerfully commits itself to the promotion of strong priests, seminarians, and practicing the fullness of the Catholic Faith. His work with youth earned him the James Cardinal Hickey National Figure Award from the Archdiocese of Washington. He lives in Millersville, Maryland with his wife and three children. He loves baseball, reading, and his backyard fire pit with many friends gathered around. In 2009, he survived a close brush with death after a malformed line of vessels in his brain hemorrhaged. The day after invasive brain surgery failed to control the flow of blood that was compressing his brain, Kevin was anointed by Fr. James Stack ― the longtime best friend of his murdered uncle, Msgr. Thomas Wells. To this day, witnesses in the dark neuro-ICU room still tell of the miracle that unfolded at his bedside.