Brendan Purcell

Priestly Identity

Church Leadership & Ministry

“Priestly Celibacy Today, by opening up a refreshing and convincing defense of celibacy, gives a scriptural, theological, and spiritual understanding of this gift of the Spirit to the Church. It also offers the priest, in the light of the Paschal Mystery, a very practical and encouraging program for living a committed celibate life.”

Wealth of Persons

Work, Money & Leadership

“John McNerney's Wealth of Persons is an amazing tour de force--his focus on the human person in economics not only opens up economics for the nonprofessional economist, it's a bracing exposition of the philosophy of the human person, all the more impressive when seen immersed in economic action. By focusing on the Austrian and the later Bologna schools' insistence on the role of the entrepreneur he critiques, on the one hand, an economy overfocused on profit and, on the other, Marx's (and later Piketty's) misreading of economics as a struggle between capital and labor. It should be required reading for all students (and teachers) of economics as well as of applied philosophical anthropology.”