Father Paul Pearson converted to Catholicism during his university days, entered the Toronto Oratory in 1985, was ordained to the priesthood in 1989, and began serving as Dean of Saint Philip's, the seminary run by the Oratorians in 1990. That same year, in response to requests from seminarians, he began to offer seminars on Dante's Inferno. This volume on the spiritual aspects Paradiso has been written so that a wider audience may benefit from spiritual direction from Dante.
Dante's Divine Comedy is profound and difficult in equal measure. If we want to plumb its depths and ascend its heights, we will need a good and reliable guide. Dante had Virgil and Beatrice. We have Father Paul Pearson. What a blessing! Joseph Pearce, Editor of the St. Austin Review