The Right Place for Love

About the Book

Pat Carroll has lived and loved in interesting times. As an American he has lived through Depression to affluence to Recession, through Civil Rights Marches anti-Vietnam protests, sat with teenagers on bad LSD trips, had friends die of AIDS, witnessed Anti-Apartheid boycotts in South Africa, offered sanctuary to Salvadoran refugees. As Catholic he has been layman, priest, and, again, lay participant, insider and outsider, devotee, cynic and ineluctable member. As priest he was trained in the old church, served in the new and departed from one becoming much like the first. He served in schools, parishes, retreat house, mission lands, affluent neighborhoods and inner city ‘hoods,” presided over the first Jesuit co-ed high school, initiated the first program offering Ignatian Spiritual exercises to lay people, led by laity. More recently, living in a wondrous marriage, he has housed low-income seniors just off the street, then found himself immersed in health care issues both as too-frequent recipient and as historian for one of its largest providers. “The Right Place for Love” tells his fascinating story with wit and wisdom.

About the Author

L. Patrick Caroll has published at least one book each of the past 6 decades, most written while he was a Jesuit priest—a life he lived for 44 years. He has been teacher, school administrator, pastor, basketball and golf coach, counselor, retreat director, social worker and most recently historian for Providence Health & Services. All his previous writings of theology, spirituality and poetry provide the foundation of this personal glimpse of how the political and religious worlds have been transformed in and around him the past three-quarters of a century. Pat’s lovely wife of the past twelve years, Diane (Dee) McQuesten shares his birthday, his dreams and has almost sole credit for keeping him joyfully alive the past twelve years.