Crimes of the Father review: Tom Keneally tackles abuse in the Catholic church

There are a growing number of novels prepared to tell the story of paedophilia within various church communities, not least the Catholic Church. Few of them have needed to stray far from the grim facts. Andrew O'Hagan's Be Near Me and John Boyne's The Long History of Loneliness are just two examples. Both these books draw the line between good and bad clergy. But they also have solid reason to call into question an entire ecclesiastical culture. They are valuable books but they don't make comfortable reading.

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