The Heart of a Priest: Father Fred's Life and Ministry - Hardcover

LaPorte, Paul

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0615508421 ISBN 13: 9780615508429

Publisher: Mission Communications, 2011

Synopsis

Winner of a 2012 Catholic Book Award bestowed by the Catholic Press Association of the United States and Canada.

The book tells the story of Michigan's Father Edwin Frederick, an ordinary man who fostered a volunteer spirit. "Fr. Fred" was assigned to a chaplaincy position at a psychiatric institution at the age of thirty-four until the age of sixty-five, when he was transferred to a parish.

According to the Catholic Weekly (September 19, 2011 issue:) "The original run was 2,000 hardcover books, which are selling at $29.95, and 100 limited-edition leather-bound versions signed by him and Fr. Edwin Thome (Fr. Frederick's successor at the foundation and the author of the book's foreword) for $100 each 'for those who want a collector's item.'

About this edition

• Publisher: Mission Communications
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0615508421
• ISBN 13: 9780615508429
• Binding: Hardcover