The priestly sins
(2004)
Fiction
Book
Call Numbers:
FICTION/GREELEY,A
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
New York : Forge, [2004]
©2004
©2004
EDITION
First edition
DESCRIPTION
301 pages ; 25 cm
ISBN/ISSN
076531052X (acid-free paper), 076531052X
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
"A Tom Doherty Associates book."
Father Herman Hoffman, a gifted and innocent young priest who, during his first parish appointment, gets swept up in the "Crisis" after witnessing child abuse in the parish rectory. When he reports the abuse, he is rebuffed by the archbishop and, vilified for denouncing a priest who has been "cleared" by the police, learns the harsh fate of the whistleblower in the contemporary Catholic Church. Later, forced to testify in a court hearing, Father Hoffman faces exile not only from his parish but from the priesthood itself