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9780733340178
Author
Smith, Suzanne
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Title
The altar boys / Suzanne Smith.
Cover title
Altar boys : a powerful true story.
Publisher and/or associated date/s
Sydney, NSW : ABC Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Australia, 2020.
©2020.
Description
xviii, 327 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly colour), portraits (chiefly colour) ; 24 cm.
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"Children with everything to live for ; A community betrayed ; The whistleblower priest who paid the ultimate price" -- Cover.
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Summary
Glen Walsh and Steven Alward were childhood friends in their tight-knit working-class community in Newcastle, NSW. Both proud altar boys at the local Catholic church, they went on to attend the city's Catholic boys' high schools: Glen to Marist Brothers and Steven to St Pius X. Both did well: Steven became a journalist; Glen a priest. Glen discovered another priest was sexually abusing boys and reported the offender to police, breaking his vows to the Catholic 'brotherhood' in the process. His decision to give evidence regarding the cover-up of clerical abuse at a landmark trial ended in tragedy. Meanwhile, Steven was fighting his own battle to overcome a traumatic past, a battle that also ended in tradegy. Ensuing investigations revealed that at least 60 men in the region had taken their own lives. What had happened, and why were so many of those men from the three Catholic high schools in the area? This is a powerful exposé of widespread and organised clerical abuse of children in one Australian city.
Subjects
Walsh, Glen
Alward, Steven
Catholic Church -- Clergy -- Australia
Catholic Church. -- Diocese of Maitland-Newcastle (N.S.W.)
Catholic Church -- New South Wales
Child sexual abuse -- Australia
Catholic high schools -- New South Wales
Child sexual abuse by clergy -- Australia
Christianity and justice -- Catholic Church
Sexual misconduct by clergy -- Australia
Newcastle (N.S.W.)
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2020.257
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