More I Could Not Ask

Finding Christ in the Margins: A Priest’s Story

Meet Father James Peterson. He is neither monk nor social worker, but somehow the world of the contemplative—the world of the Trappist, the Sulpician, and the Carmelite—merges with the world of the street—the world of prisoners, ex-convicts, and addicts—in the life of this humble priest. As a result, he meets Christ, in every person, every day of his life. His story traces the shaping of one man’s consciousness from a child’s grasp of his family’s immigrant faith, with its deep reverence for the priesthood, to an ever-deepening sense of family and priestly service that extends to the entire body of Christ.