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  .... a new book with something important to say about living and dying ... 
     
“Provocative, sometimes infuriating, and always entertaining … "   
                                                    - Brian D’Arcy, C.P., Priest, Broadcaster & Writer
   "... this intriguing and humorous story ..."  - Joanne Fleming, Down Recorder 

Brother Barney O.P. 
- an autobiographical novel with a difference: see Addendum:'Sex, Love, Marriage, Nullity & Divorce' - Open Letter to Pope Benedict XVI.
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What's it about?
The Blackfriars of Mediaeval Europe !
 In England since A.D. 1221 ....and the latest member of the Order of Friars Preachers is young Joe Coyle – aka Brother Barnabas - just arrived from London with all his worldly possessions in a tin trunk. Having worked his way through personal crises - with a beautiful green-eyed girl with corn coloured hair, and then another dark haired beauty - Barney is serious, intense, determined – to take vows of Poverty, Chastity, and Obedience - but to his amazement he finds that monastic life is fun – despite a freezing winter that lasts for a hundred days, the absence of women, and only a small drop of alcohol on major feast days.  It's a soul making experience, raising big questions about life and death.  But it ain't all doom and gloom - by a long chalk!

“Provocative, sometimes infuriating, and always entertaining … I particularly enjoyed and agreed with the short chapter ‘Sex, Love, Marriage, Divorce, Nullity and a Caring Church.’ I don’t expect you will agree with all Br. Barney’s musings but you will be stimulated into musings of your own.  Thank God the Br. Barneys of this world still have a voice.  Long may it be so.” - Brian D’Arcy, C.P., Priest, Broadcaster & Writer                                                                       

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