Crimes of the Father by Keneally Thomas & Keneally Tom

Author:Keneally, Thomas & Keneally, Tom [Keneally, Thomas & Keneally, Tom]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Historical, Fiction, Faith, Crime, Religion, Australia, Contemporary
ISBN: 9780857987136
Goodreads: 33362050
Publisher: RHA eBooks Adult
Published: 2016-10-31T07:00:00+00:00

Around this time my friend Liz Cosgrove, who also attended Frank’s services at Longueville, took up the cause of child sex slaves in Calcutta. She volunteered to run a sub-committee that Frank had set up, which raised money to be remitted to Dr Deriaya. Dr Deriaya had remained an efficient activist, working on her liberations of child prostitutes, writing a newsletter, calling around the troops – by now she had recruited women from all over the world.

It was Liz and I who came up with the idea of a weekly meeting with Frank. We asked him if, amidst his studies, he could spare a night a week for a discussion group involving members of the parish.

‘You don’t need a priest to preside over that,’ Frank told us. ‘You don’t need a priest to validate your opinions.’

I understood his point exactly.

‘We don’t necessarily need a priest, but we need you. Consider yourself a catalyst.’

The first evening meeting was held at our place. It was made up of couples for whom theology and politics were two faces of the one entity. These people were repelled by religion attempting to establish absolutes of conscience, the one strict gate to the vision of God. One middle-aged man complained that in Australia, pious observance and obedience to the law’s letter were considered the measure of the soul. They, like me, were in rebellion against that, against the priestly authoritarianism that had ruled their childhoods. And yet … we had invited a priest! What was obvious to Frank, I think, was our love of the Church as a community. We were not theological serfs who accepted the word, any word, of Rome as truth; we were anxious for a new, sophisticated and transforming theology.

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