Ordered by his bishop to destroy the copies of this book, which had been meant only for private distribution, Fr. Hugo obeyed. The book was a kind of open letter to his fellow priests. But, in the late 1940's it was too honest about what was wrong with the priesthood and, to a worldly band of priests, too daunting in what it demanded the priesthood to deliver to the laity. So, the message had to be suppressed. Yet the message, a prophetic and timely...