I read this book in only a few days and couldn't put it down. Fr. Berg has done a great service to the Catholic Church by chronicling his own experiences working through the suffering caused by the founder of the Legion of Christ, Fr. Marcial Maciel Degollado. Fr. Berg found strength in his original vocation to be a priest, separating the authentic and divine call he experienced from the manipulative psychological coercion he experienced in his recruitment to the Legion. Having read the book, I can't help but have the sense multiplied that it is unfortunate that the Legion of Christ has not been suppressed. These methods Fr. Berg recounts seem to be so widely practiced that it is likely that others who experienced similar spiritual abuse need to rediscover their authentic vocations away from the LCs. That said, Fr. Berg clearly has experienced deep healing of his own wounds and writes as one who offers an extraordinarily balanced position.Someone judging the book by its cover might think that this book only pertains to sexual abuse. While it treats the wounds caused by such abuse, Fr. Berg recognizes the varying shades of abuse. For any who while working for the Church or discerning a vocation have experienced workplace bullies, narcissistic superiors, abusive formators, harassers, and the gaslighting enablers that always surround those types, there are several quite powerful stories that make this book extremely edifying and relatable.I am also grateful to the generous souls who shared their wounds with Fr. Berg and who shared their stories with readers like myself. You are much beloved by Christ and by his Church, despite the mistreatment you experienced. You teach us that we all must do better not to simply observe others being mistreated if we ourselves are not being mistreated.From my own professional experience as a seminary professor, I would also recommend this book to future priests and candidates for the permanent diaconate, especially in the dimensions of human and pastoral formation. You must be attentive to the ways in which narcissism, mismanagement, and bullying traumatize your subordinates and disfigure their view of the sacred ministerial priesthood. I would recommend this book to formators to heal and uproot narcissistic tendencies in those discerning. We must be a listening Church, a Church of accompaniment, and if we are not reading this book, we are not accompanying. Reading this book is listening.[A side note: If you are hurting from wounds received in your parish, Catholic workplace, covenant community, or elsewhere, after reading Fr. Berg's book, I would also strongly recommend Bessel van der Kolk's The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma. This book shows the science of how childhood and adult traumas affect the brain's development, the mind's function, the sense of self, and well-being for many years.]In the final analysis, one's own victimhood need not be perpetual. Fr. Berg shares the good news that the perpetual victimhood of Christ the priest can bring healing to those whose wounds have burdened them for so many decades, faithful disciples who presented themselves in service to Christ and who were betrayed by hirelings. Fr. Berg points that way back to Jesus Christ the Healer, the Advocate with the Father.I want to thank Fr. Berg for writing this much-needed book and encourage him in his own priestly vocation. I know what darkness can come with putting a book together on sin. I can only imagine the Herculean effort it must have taken to enter into the darkness and pain of the wounds that were so close to him and to have so many victims present their own wounds to him. In so doing, Fr. Berg has shown us a true image of Christ the priest, making visible his own wounds for the healing of others. May his reward be multiplied a hundredfold.