- Title:
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Crimes of the Father
- Written by:
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Thomas Keneally
- Read by:
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Humphrey Bower
- Format:
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Unabridged CD Audio Book
- Number of CDs:
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10
- Duration:
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11 hours 28 minutes
- Published:
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April 28 2017
- Available Date:
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April 28 2017
- Age Category:
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Adult
- ISBN:
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9781489389176
- Genres:
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Fiction; Australian Fiction; Religious Fiction
- Publisher:
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ABC Audio
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'Crimes of the Father is the work of a richly experienced and compassionate writer. It has an honest understanding of a deeply wounded culture.'
The Sydney Morning Herald
A courageous and powerful novel about faith, the church, conscience and celibacy.
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 matter to the attention of the Church itself, and to secular authorities.
This riveting, profoundly thoughtful novel is both an exploration of faith as well as an examination of marriage, of conscience and celibacy, and of what has become one of the most controversial institutions, the Catholic Church. 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.
'Nuanced and relevant ... Crimes of the Father is an excellent example of fiction’s capacity to pull apart and explore polarising contemporary problems.'
BMA Magazine