Ten Commandments for Church Reform: Memoirs of a Catholic Priest

The autobiography of a Catholic priest and theologian who has spent a lifetime advocating for the reform of several outdated policies and practices of the Church. Born in Indonesia in 1935, he was in a Japanese POW camp with his family for four years, starting at age six. Ordained a priest when he was 23, he served for 14 years as a Mill Hill Missionary in India, where he was a professor and lecturer in a Catholic seminary. A prolific writer of Christian literature and film scripts, he was the founder and director of a center for faith formation in London, which continues today as the Wijngaards Institute for Catholic Research. This book reveals his "Ten Commandments" for Church reform—ranging from the inclusion of women in the priesthood to the appointment of open-minded, pastoral bishops rather than hard-line traditionalists.