Faith
2011 • 318 pages

Ratings6

Average rating3.9

15

Interesting points of view on the Catholic clergy and child sexual abuse crimes that exploded during the last decade or so. The main narrator is the sister of a Catholic priest accused of inappropriate contact with a young boy, but the book also looks at the case through the priest's police-officer brother, the mother of the young boy, and the priest himself.

I felt sympathetic towards all the characters, so I thought the novel did a good job of making the reader aware that these abuse-by-clergy scandals have many different sides and painting any one person as the “villain” is simplistic.

June 1, 2011Report this review