Absolutely null and utterly void: The Papal condemnation of Anglican Orders, 1896 [Hardcover]

John Jay Hughes (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 348 pages
• Publisher: Sheed & Ward; First Edition edition (1968)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0722005385
• ISBN-13: 978-0722005385
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,177,299 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Born in New York City in 1928 as son and grandson of Anglican priests, and through his mother a direct descendant of US Founding Father and first Chief Justice, John Jay, John Jay Hughes was an Anglican priest himself for 6 years before becoming a Catholic in 1960. A Church historian and priest of the St. Louis archdiocese, he describes his difficult journey to the Catholic Church in his autobiography "No Ordinary Fool: A Testimony to Grace", which is also the story of a man who, 57 years after ordination, is still in love with priesthood. The Foreword writer, George Weigel, calls it "a most dramatic life." Eugene Kennedy says it is "the most profound memoir of a personal spiritual search since Thomas Merton's "Seven Story Mountain." John Allen calls it "a piercing, wise memoir, written by a priest who has prayed and thought deeply about matters of both head and heart. Hughes is admired across ideological fault lines because he cuts to the core of things, to the restless need of the human heart for a love that lasts."