Prisoner of God is a revolutionary testimony against the Church and its methods, against the brainwashing to which many members are submitted, and the power and influence it exerts across a broad spectrum of society. It is also
an account of the mysterious world of the abbeys: the monks' everyday life and the way they deal with solitude, silence and sexuality.
A brilliant student with a promising career ahead of him as a biologist under the guidance of nobel Prize-winner Jacques Monod, Michel Benoit decided at the age of twenty-two to follow the path of God and take on monastic orders as Brother IreÌneÌe. But after twenty-two years of self-sacrifice and a fraught quest for God, Michel was "discharged" by the Church. What happened? What mechanism led to the Catholic hierarchy rejecting one of its own?
an account of the mysterious world of the abbeys: the monks' everyday life and the way they deal with solitude, silence and sexuality.
A brilliant student with a promising career ahead of him as a biologist under the guidance of nobel Prize-winner Jacques Monod, Michel Benoit decided at the age of twenty-two to follow the path of God and take on monastic orders as Brother IreÌneÌe. But after twenty-two years of self-sacrifice and a fraught quest for God, Michel was "discharged" by the Church. What happened? What mechanism led to the Catholic hierarchy rejecting one of its own?
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