This is WEEKEND EDITION from NPR News. I'm Rachel Martin. It used to be
that being a Catholic priest was just about the highest social standing a
man could achieve in Ireland. It was a call that always reflected well
upon a young man and his family. The Irish writer John Boyne says that
is not always the case now.
The sex abuse crisis in the church destroyed a lot of lives, and the focus has rightly been on the victims who suffered the abuse. But in his new novel, Boyne introduces us to a central, yet overlooked, character in this crisis - the priest who did not abuse but who did turn a blind eye. The book is called "A History Of Loneliness," and the priest at the center of the story is named Father Odran Yates.
http://www.npr.org/2015/02/01/383036438/history-of-lonliness-explores-the-complexity-of-priest-sex-abuse
The sex abuse crisis in the church destroyed a lot of lives, and the focus has rightly been on the victims who suffered the abuse. But in his new novel, Boyne introduces us to a central, yet overlooked, character in this crisis - the priest who did not abuse but who did turn a blind eye. The book is called "A History Of Loneliness," and the priest at the center of the story is named Father Odran Yates.
http://www.npr.org/2015/02/01/383036438/history-of-lonliness-explores-the-complexity-of-priest-sex-abuse