Ecclesiastical Robots

ECCLESIATICAL ROBOTS written by Ann Ferry, explores the Irish reluctance to face up to the legacy of widespread institutional abuse has been remarkable in the long crisis in the Catholic Church. Instead of principled stock taking, defensiveness and even blaming the victims have been the norm. The reflexive field of fiction has long been used by the Irish to consider history. ECCLESIASTICAL ROBOTS is based on factual stories reminding us that the life for the training of postulants entering the convent to become nuns was frequently a truly traumatic and dehumanizing process exposing oppression by authority within religious orders often with sad results. The book explores a dysfunctional and controlling culture where rules were to be obeyed at any cost and cruelty was imposed for the slightest infraction. The book highlights that life in many religious entities became robotic and obedience to every schedule and routine summoned automatic responses. The public perception of religious institutions is that the people who enter them are good and caring and compassionate. Though ECCLESIASTICAL ROBOTS is a work of fiction it is based on reality and supports the premise that very frequently, all is not what it seems.

Pagina's: 207, Paperback, Independently published