I have never met Fr. Flum, the devil’s “public enemy” and subject of The Hermit: The Priest Who Saved a Soul, a Marriage, and a Family (Ignatius, 2024). At this point, I likely never will—now that he’s “completely off the grid, gone forever like absolved sin,” as the author of said book, Kevin Wells, relayed to me. A good man is hard to find, after all, and a holy man even more so.
