Used book – And if I confessed, Guy Gilbert

For 40 years, Father Guy Gilbert has been fighting for the "scum" of the streets and prisons, all the outcasts and marginalized abandoned by society. For 40 years, he has preached love and tolerance, respect for others and for oneself. For 40 years, he has challenged public opinion and the media, with the same energy, his hard-hitting words, his leather jacket, and his cowboy boots. In 40 years of priesthood, he has never lost faith in God or trust in humanity.

For the first time, he tells his story in a confessional book. He, who has spoken so much for others, recounts his life frankly, with strength and tenderness: his birth into a working-class family of fifteen children, his religious calling at thirteen, Algeria where he faced torture, injustice, and suffering, forging his resilience and his rebellions, his first encounters with young "lost souls," his daily, relentless fight to pull the "wild ones" out of hell, in Paris and in Faucon, in the Provençal sheepfold that welcomes the "incorrigibles."

This book is an opportunity to retrace an exceptional journey, that of a committed witness in our society.