<p>"The Priest Who Couldn't Cheat" is a deeply personal and moving insight into the troubles that plague the Catholic Church in America. Hank Mattimore's life story could also be called the simultaneous making and unmaking of a priest for he ably describes how he both found his way to the priesthood and found troubling flaws in it at the same time. In the end, although he chose to be no longer ordained, Hank has proven himself a priest in the best sense of the word.</p>

The Priest Who Couldn't Cheat

Biographies & Memoirs

Mattimore, Hank

Leaders & Notable People

David A. Gawlik

Sing to Me and I Will Hear You - The Love Story opens when a nun and a priest, each newly assigned to the same parish school in Waterville, Maine, in September, 1968, are introduced to one another. Sister Maureen, also a campus minister at Colby College during those heady days of anti-Vietnam-war fervor, discovers she has fallen in love with Father McGillicuddy, and, after deep soul searching, leaves the convent. Reclaiming her original name, Elaine takes the reader into her confidence by sharing the story of her two-year underground relationship with Father Francis. Together they follow the optional celibacy debates in Rome, await with some doubt, but yet with some hope, a Vatican decision in its favor. Such an outcome would have allowed Father Francis to become a married Catholic priest. But when that door is shut in December, 1971, Francis exodus ensues and the wedding date is set. Elaine and Francis married life is multi-faceted and spiritually rich. After an attempt to adopt a child falls through, they put their energies into peacemaking, founding a yoga center, transforming their lot into a demonstration site for permaculture, and, on Elaine s part, training for and leading Dances of Universal Peace. Their life together comes to a climax when in 2009, Francis cancer diagnosis leaves them only one hundred more days together. Deeply moved by the way Francis approached his own death, she celebrates his extraordinary patience, courage, and grace in dealing with pain and in facing the unknown. Francis does not directly use the expression of his namesake, Francis of Assisi, namely, Welcome Sister Death, but he goes out to meet her with the same attitude. And with love on his lips.

Sing to Me and I Will Hear You - A Love Story

Elaine G. McGillicuddy

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The Priest Who Couldn't Cheat

Sing to Me and I Will Hear You - A Love Story