'On a wintry Friday in 1980 the Bad Clergy are out for a night in the deliciously dirty old 'Syndey' city. Kelly, Muldoon, Mahone and Clancy (plus two silent companions) - young Catholic priests all - throw off their robes and embrace the contradictions of their theological guardianship. A literary concoction of satire, criticism, magic realism, atheism, theology and social commentary, Bad Clergy weaves their night's journey from eager Eucharist to doubtful Divinity. Through prose, verse and dialogue, as well as a series of absurdist encounters refracted through the actions of the six young priests, Bad Clergy offers a jarring, darkly humorous and fantastical taste of the bitter clash between convenient dogma and inconvenient reality.' (Publication summary)
