01593cam a2200313 i 4500 446956049 TxAuBib 20200101120000.0 050126s2005||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9780765349521 0765349523 (OCoLC)57639593 UKM eng UKM BAKER BTCTA OCLCG CNVPL VUE BDX OCLCA OCLCQ OCLCO OCLCQ YDXCP OCLCF OCLCO OCLCQ OCLCO UKMGB UNITY OCLCO MJO TxAuBib rda Greeley, Andrew M., 1928-2013. The priestly sins : a novel / Andrew M. Greeley. New York : Forge, 2005. 384 pages ; 18 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Originally published: 2004. 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. 20200101. Catholic Church Clergy Fiction. Whistle blowing Fiction. Child sexual abuse by clergy Fiction. Psychological fiction. Fiction.