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Title: Crimes of the Father

Author: Thomas Keneally

Narrator: Humphrey Bower

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11 hrs and 29 mins

Language: English

Release date: 03-27-17

Publisher: Bolinda Publishing Pty Ltd

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

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

Excommunicated 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.

Critic Reviews:

"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)

"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)

Members Reviews:

An ethical novel that is the truth

Extremely well written with the right equilibrium of drama and anticipation. Very toplical, but gave a balance ethical of the church and peoples reaction to the abuse revolations that have been coming out over the last twenty plus years.

Keneally who one did a year in a Catholic seminary has the church rituals and their historial origin down to a tee. This adds great credibility to his story.

He targets the church where it is apropriate. No one person or one organisation is all bad, except for the completely pathological. There was only one of these characters in this saluatory tale. At tale that should be compulsary reading for all who entered the noble profession of looking after one's fellow man.

Richard Turnbull

church . . . schmirch . . . a three star (2+ 3-) . . . meh . . .

as you can see . . . . 18% five star, 70% kinda ok and for me . . .3 star . . . . meh . . . . well put together, truthful insight into a church's worldwide crime of abuse but . . . meh . . . . could have used more editing.

A thoughtful poignant and penetrating novel about a group of ...

A thoughtful poignant and penetrating novel about a group of ËIrish -Australian Catholics in in the 1990s coming to grips with the emerging issue of sexual abuse by Catholic priests and brothers. Kennealy, a former seminarian and a superb writer, holds the reader's interest in his believable characters. At the end of a complicated story, a certain amount of justice is done, and it's been worth the trip.,

Hits the mark

An interesting if sometimes meandering book whose characters are well developed and credible.