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Tue 02 Feb 2010The loneliness at the heart of the priesthood
THAT'S MEN:Few portraits of the lives of the isolated clergy
I PAUSED at one of my chaotic bookshelves the other day when I spotted a frayed copy of the Irish writer Richard Power’s book, The Hungry Grass. Power died in 1970, the year following the first publication of the now out-of-print novel, pivoting around the final days of a cantankerous priest, Fr Conroy, the sort of man even fellow priests found daunting.
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