Crimes of the Father

✍ Scribed by Keneally, Tom

• Book ID: 109608994
• Publisher: Penguin Random House Australia
• Year: 2016
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 295 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9780857987136

✦ Synopsis

A timely, courageous and powerful novel about faith, the church, conscience and celibacy.

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Tom Keneally, ex-seminarian, pulls no punches as he interrogates the terrible damage done to innocents as the Catholic Church has prevaricated around language and points of law, covering up for its own.
Ex-communicated to Canada due to his radical preaching on the Vietnam War and other human rights causes, Father Frank Docherty is now a psychologist and monk. He returns to Australia to speak on abuse in the Church, and unwittingly is soon listening to stories from two different people - a young man, via his suicide note, and an ex-nun - who both claim to have been sexually abused by an eminent Sydney cardinal. This senior churchman is himself currently empannelled in a commission investigating sex abuse within the Church.
As a man of character and conscience, Father Docherty finds he must confront each party involved in the abuse and cover-up to try to bring the...