Faith
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Sheila McGann is estranged from her complicated family. But when her older brother Art, pastor of a large suburban parish, finds himself at the center of a scandal, Sheila returns to Boston, ready to fight for him. Her strict mother lives in a state of angry denial; her younger brother Mike has already convicted his brother in his heart. But most disturbing of all is Art himself, who persistently dodges Sheila's questions and refuses to defend himself.
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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.
