"This biography of Father Joseph Fessio, S.J., founder of Ignatius Press and the University of San Francisco's Saint Ignatius Institute, is written by one of Fessio's first Jesuit mentors. Born and raised in the California Bay Area in the golden age after World War II, the bold Joe Fessio would, by sheer luck, eventually study under some of the greatest theological minds of the twentieth century-Henri de Lubac, Hans Urs von Balthasar, and Joseph Ratzinger (Pope Benedict XVI). He would develop into arguably one of the most powerful and energetic forces in the American Catholic Church, designing a pioneering Catholic Great Books program and creating perhaps the largest Catholic publishing house in the English-speaking world. With many hilarious glimpses into the engine rooms of Catholic institutions, warts and all, this cheerful, unsentimental study of Fessio's unique life, cut through with Buckley's trademark wit, shows what effective Christian missionary work can look like in the age of media"-- Providedby publisher.
