Through a Glass Darkly

Through a Glass Darkly tells the story of Ron Hennessey, an Iowa farmer who returned from the Korean War to discover that farming no longer held much allure. Hennessey joined a Catholic missionary society and after nine years of study was ordained a priest and sent to Guatemala.

The book describes Hennessey''s conversion from being an unapologetic patriot from America''s heartland to a staunch opponent of Ronald Reagan''s policies in Central America - policies that occasionally threatened Hennessey''s life. Hennessey''s story has a subtext: America''s ideals of freedom, democracy, and progress-with-justice have been violated abroad by one U.S. president after another.