Son of Angela

Growing up as a Catholic in a rural area in Australia in the 1950s, where starting First grade at the local Catholic School was more than just the beginning of formal education. It was above all an initiation into a vast parallel culture. A memoir of a family of that era in rural Australia, seen through the lens of a boy’s religious conscience. There were sins that only Catholics could commit, like eating meat on Friday or missing Sunday Mass. But mostly the priests were there to pardon com...