Father Frank Docherty has had his run-ins with the church authorities: in the early 1970s, he was expelled from the Sydney archdiocese for preaching against the Vietnam War and has...
Thomas Keneally pulls no punches in this powerful novel about the Catholic Church's attempts to cover up cases of child abuse, and a priest who decides to help its innocent...
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...
Originally published: Australia: Penguin random House, 2016.
Her father had lost her—she did not want his company and he was chastened, and the chastening remained even in his worst bouts: it ... some reason that was PTR2_Keneally_CrimesOfTheFather_CV_KB.indd 13 8/13/18 12:44 PM CRIMES OF THE FATHER.
Crimes of the Father