Crimes Of The Father

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Very Good
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Vintage Books/Penquin
Publisher Place: North Sydney
Publisher Year: 2016
Edition: First Edition

Description: 382 pages. Book is in Very good condition throughout. The Only Exceptions Is A Small Inscription To The Inside Page And Some Light Reading Wear. Keneally Pulls No Punches In This Novel As He Interrogates The Terrible Damage Done To Innocents By The Catholic Church With Its Relentless Covering Up For Its Own.

Publishers Description: "A timely, courageous and powerful novel about faith, the church, conscience and celibacy. Tom Keneally, ex-seminarian, pulls no punches as he interrogates the terrible damage done to innocents as the Catholic Church prevaricated around language and points of law and covered up for its own. Ex-communicated to Canada due to his radical preaching around the Vietnam War and other human rights causes, Father Frank Docherty, now a psychologist and monk, returns to Australia to speak on the future of celibacy and the church. Unwittingly, he is soon listening to stories from two different people who tell of being abused by an eminent Sydney monsignor, a senior churchman currently empanneled in a commission into sex abuse within the church. As a man of character and conscience, Docherty finds he must confront all parties involved in the abuse and coverup and involve the law. Both a thoughtful exploration of what it is to be a priest u good and bad u and the restraints of celibacy, and simultaneously an examination of marriage u good and bad u and how it compares."

ISBN: 9780857987112