The priestly sins
Subtitle: a novel
By: Andrew M. Greeley
Publisher: Forge
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 384
ISBN-13: 9780765349521
Subjects: Whistle blowing; Fiction; Catholic Church; Clergy; Child sexual abuse by clergy
Description: Father Herman Hoffman, a gifted and innocent 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 preisthood itself.
Notes: Originally published: 2004.