TY  - BOOK
AU  - Keneally, Thomas,
TI  - Crimes of the father
SN  - 9780857987112
U1  - A823.4 23
PY  - 2016///
CY  - North Sydney, N.S.W.
PB  - Vintage Books
KW  - Sex crimes
KW  - Australia
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Australia Fiction
KW  - Clergy
KW  - Sexual behavior
KW  - Sexual behavior Australia Fiction
KW  - Celibacy
KW  - Catholic Church
KW  - Catholic Church Fiction
KW  - Australian fiction
KW  - Australian
KW  - Adventure fiction
N2  - 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
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