Crimes of the Father (Unabridged) Crimes of the Father (Unabridged)

Crimes of the Father (Unabridged‪)‬

    • 5.0 • 2 Ratings
    • $18.99

    • $18.99

Publisher Description

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.

GENRE
Fiction
NARRATOR
HB
Humphrey Bower
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
11:24
hr min
RELEASED
2017
28 April
PUBLISHER
Bolinda Publishing Pty Ltd
SIZE
348.9
MB

Listeners Also Bought

Schindler's List: also released as Schindler's Ark (Unabridged) Schindler's List: also released as Schindler's Ark (Unabridged)
2018
April Fool's Day (Unabridged) April Fool's Day (Unabridged)
2008
The Yield: Winner of the 2020 Miles Franklin Award The Yield: Winner of the 2020 Miles Franklin Award
2019
The Fast 800 (Unabridged) The Fast 800 (Unabridged)
2019
The Potato Factory - Potato Factory Trilogy Book 1 (Unabridged) The Potato Factory - Potato Factory Trilogy Book 1 (Unabridged)
2008
The Happiest Refugee (Unabridged) The Happiest Refugee (Unabridged)
2017