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Hailed as the latest icon in Commonwealth biographies, Daniel Massa’s recently published PSI Kingmaker: Life, thought and adventures of Peter Serracino Inglott has now gone inter-national.
The European Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies’ Bulletin describes the “warts and all” narrative as compellingly readable, irreverently funny and morally uplifting.
Focusing on Fr Peter’s unsurpassed admiration for Hugo Rahner’s Man at Play or Eutrapelia, the Bulletin describes the biography as a poignant human image of “a saint in the world”, pointing out that the narrative is shaped by Massa’s sensitive, humorous narration interspersed with Peter’s own account of personal events.
The two voices are skilfully woven into the memorable image of PSI the clown-priest-humanist-politician-thinker that emerges across the whole life story.
Massa will be travelling to the European Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies’ Triennial Conference, Uncommon Wealth: Riches and Realities, at Innsbruck University where he will be giving some readings from PSI Kingmaker at a plenary session on Wednesday.
Book signing sessions follow on April 17. Further PSI Kingmaker sessions in Commonwealth fora are planned to take place in universities in London and Barcelona.
An extensive review of PSI Kingmaker: Life, thought and adventures of Peter Serracino Inglott by Mgr Charles G. Vella will be featured in the prestigious monthly publication Arte Cristiana in Milan.
Here, the long-expected coda to the biography has aroused considerable interest, dealing as it does with religious doubt and the Christian search for holiness.
This had been continually urged by the director of Scuola Beato Angelico, Mgr Valerio Vigorelli, who had provided a “spiritual intellectual hideout” for Fr Peter to complete his definitive philosophical statement about the Existence of God.
The latters is acknowledged by Fr Joe Borg to have resulted in “a riveting and uplifting text of spiritual theology”.