Donegal Suite - Softcover

"A rich testimony to the travails and satisfactions of the spiritual search in the inner city."

"This is a book to look at and to read and, preferably, when doing the latter, read out loud." -- Lawrence S. Cunningham

"There are a lot of ex-priests and ex-nuns who travel long distances to attend [McNamee's] services, because in him they find something they did not experience in the more suburban expressions of the Roman Catholic Church." -- David Morse

"McNamee's book and his life serve as a reminder that, though Philadelphia may have clergy of greater honor and eminence, probably few contribute more or more effectively to the works of the Lord and his glory than this urban priest in his impoverished parish." -- Gordon Zahn

"I'm delighted that these poems will see the light of a larger day. My delight is spontaneous and studied, both. This new 'diary of an urban priest, ' for a time living in solitude in wild Donegal, trades wonderfully in contrast, choice, implicit risk. John goes from his needy flock of the homeless and helpless, languishing in the inner city, to the 'sea in distant view, ' to the 'home as never elsewhere am I home.' The clash is salutary, the poems summon healing and eloquence. We are gently, greatly benefited." -- Daniel Berrigan