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A key comic writer of the past three decades has created his most heartfelt and hard-hitting book. <b>Father Joe</b> is Tony Hendra’s inspiring true story of finding faith, friendship, and family through the decades-long influence of a surpassingly wise Benedictine monk named Father Joseph Warrillow. <p>Like everything human, it started with sex. In 1955, fourteen-year-old Tony found himself entangled with a married Catholic woman. In Cold War England, where Catholicism was the subject of news stories and Graham Greene bestsellers, Tony was whisked off by the woman’s husband to see a priest and be saved.</p> <p>Yet what he found was a far cry from the priests he’d known at Catholic school, where boys were beaten with belts or set upon by dogs. Instead, he met Father Joe, a gentle, stammering, ungainly Benedictine who never used the words “wrong” or “guilt,” who believed that God was in everyone and that “the only sin was selfishness.” During the next forty years, as his life and career drastically ebbed and flowed, Tony discovered that his visits to Father Joe remained the one constant in his life—the relationship that, in the most serious sense, saved it.</p> <p>From the fifties a

Author

Tony Hendra

Publisher

Walker Large Print

Published

2004

Language

EN

ISBN

9780786269105

Subjects

Philosophy, Literary Fiction, Memoir

Rating

3.72 / 5 (1,359 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13