"He was the greatest and most gentle soul to walk this planet. I was closer to him than to any other human being on earth." Bill W. on Father Ed
Father Ed is the first biography of Father Edward Dowling, SJ (18981960), whose guidance transformed Alcoholics Anonymous co-founder Bill Wilsons life and deepened the spirituality of the twelve-step movement. Trained as a journalist, Dowling was always drawn to those who were sufferinga sympathy enhanced by his own crippling infirmitieswhich led him to embrace the A.A. approach to healing in community. There is no counting the millions of lives his ministry touched.
