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Priests: The Guise and the Guys Behind the Training collar catches the diverse personalities of over 20 Catholic priests in a book born from the experience and perceptions of Monsignor Gaston A. Hebert over his 54 years in the priesthood. During that time he offered as a professor, pastor, vicar basic, and diocesan administrator in the Diocese of Little Rock and roll. By his genuine portrayal of priests sans halos or horns, he conveys understanding in to the joys and sorrows, challenges and temptations, successes and failures found in every priest's life. As the priests have difficulties through their own personality flaws, they also fight the changes in the Chapel and in contemporary society from 1960 for this. Situations progress encompassing the seven major vices; racial, cultural, and religious prejudice; cravings; abortion; sexual promiscuity, homosexuality, pedophilia, incest; the Vietnam War and clericalism, within the historical framework of the period. To spell it out the book as Christian fiction might be misleading as it isn't saccharin and is also hardly ever didactic, seeking rather to portray the clergy as real men, lured and flawed like all humanity, but powered to serve God. It really is unlikely the reader could complete the book without recognizing both the bad and the good character qualities of priests and ministers he might have known, as well as his own. The writer holds certifications in beliefs and English; taught English and Crisis for 15 years at Catholic High School in Little Rock and roll, Arkansas; was pastor of St. Paul the Apostle Chapel in Pocahontas, Arkansas, for six years; was pastor of the then-largest parish in Arkansas, Christ the King Chapel, in Little Rock and roll, for 20 years; was vicar basic from 1988 to 2006, and then became the administrator of the diocese for two years. He was called a protonotary apostolic by Pope Benedict XVI in 2008. He printed The Faux Bishop's Gems in 2009 2009, based on some his essays recently printed in The Arkansas Catholic.
