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Issue Details: First known date: 2016... 28 October 2016 of Brisbane Times est. 2016 Brisbane Times
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Celibacy and the Modern Priest : Tom Keneally on His New Book Crimes of the Father, Thomas Keneally , single work review
— Review of Crimes of the Father Thomas Keneally , 2016 single work novel ;
'In the early 1970s I knew a splendid priest whose authority to say Mass and operate within the Archdiocese of Sydney was terminated by the then prelate, Cardinal James Freeman. The priest's name was Father Pat Connor and he was a dear friend. As a young missionary in India, he was influenced by Gandhi, and I never knew a person who practised non-violent dissent with less pathology and more dignity and human love than Pat. As a peaceable man, he was involved in anti-Vietnam and anti-apartheid protest, including the famous and unwise Springbok tour of 1971. ...'
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