A brilliant student with a promising career ahead of him as a biologist under the guidance of Nobel Prize winner Jacques Monod, Michel Benoît decided at the age of twenty­-two to follow the path of God and take on monastic orders as Brother Irénée. But after more than twenty years of self-sacrifice and a fraught quest for God, Michel was “discharged” by the Church. What happened? What led to the Catholic hierarchy rejecting one of its own?

Prisoner of God is a compelling examination of sectarianism and the methods used by organizations to stifle freedom of expression and crush the individual. 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.

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Read an excerpt from Prisoner of God

Visit Michel Benoît's blog at http://michelbenoit17.over-blog.com/

(French)
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