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In Good Company: The Fast Track from the Corporate World to Poverty, Chastity, and Obedience

"In Good Company" is the story of one young man's remarkable journey from corporate America to the Society of Jesus, the world's largest Catholic religious order for men. Martin leads readers from his Catholic childhood through his rapid success and ultimate dissatisfaction with the business world to his novitiate and profession of vows of a Jesuit.

Audience
adult
Length
medium · 202 pages

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