"The manner of living...is ordinary," wrote St. Ignatius of his infant Society of Jesus. Not so the members, he well have added-and certainly not Father LaFarge! priest is probably the best-known, best-loved Jesuit in A today, and in these pages he tells the fascinating story full, rich life. Scion of a prominent American family, descendant of Benjamin Franklin and Commodore Perry, John LaFarge startled the fashionable world of Newport and New giving up an honored place in the society of men-in favor Society of of Jesus. Father LaFarge begins by etching a sensitive portrait of his youth among many of America's great. We catch revealing
glimpses of Theodore Roosevelt, William and Henry James, Edith Wharton and Henry Adams. Even more interesting is the story of Father LaFarge's half century in the priesthood. It took him to Blackwell.'s Island, there to spend himself for New York’s unfortunates; to rural Maryland, where he labored 15 years for his white and Negro flock; and to the Jesuit weekly America, where he has served since 1926 as columnist and editor.