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Traveller to Freedom: the Roger Pryke Story
ISBN: 9780646536538
Author(s): Francis Ravel Harvey Publisher: Freshwater Press
BOOK DESCRIPTION:
Roger Pryke was a visionary Catholic priest at odds with the authorities of his day. Inspired by a period of study at the College Propaganda Fide in Rome in 1938, where he read and discussed philosophy with like-minded students he fell in love with his faith a faith which was augmented when he attended the Second Vatican Council in 1962.
REVIEWS:
"This is a book that I read from cover to cover almost without stopping for breath. It is a biography of Fr. Roger Pryke, one of Australia's most charismatic priests, written by Francis Ravel Harvey whom Pryke received into the Catholic Church. ... I think Pryke, like Oedipus, had no choice but to face the evidence that kept hitting him in the face, no matter how unpalatable it was. The message of altruism that Jesus preached is a truly beautiful one and one which is really the only hope for the survival of humanity and the planet. But piled upon that is the dogma upon dogma that starts to look just like any other fairy tale of any other religion, beautifully poetic, great literature and drama, but... I can thoroughly recommend this book. It is beautifully written ... you won't, by the way, find it advertised in the Catholic Weekly. The editor has already refused a paid advertisement. It's a biography about a 'fallen priest', I suppose that might scandalize the "little people"." ...James, Catholica www.catholica.com.au/forum/index.php?id=72944
"In Traveller to Freedom, Francis Ravel Harvey explores a rich life in a meaty biography that salutes Roger Pryke's stellar achievements without masking flaws and low points. For anyone wishing to pursue the Vatican II story in Australia this will be a necessary book." ...Ed Campion
See also Fr Edmund Campion's obituary from Roger Pryke published in the Sydney Morning Herald on 1st July 2009: LINK
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Journalist and author, Francis Ravel Harvey was born 1930 in Sydney, New South Wales and began his career as a cadet newspaper journalist in 1947. He worked in the live theatre in Sydney, wrote scripts for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's popular series Tales of Many Lands, and founded his own monthly magazine Theatregoer. He was theatre critic for the Canberra Times in the 70s and published the first theatre yearbook for the Australian Elizabethan Theatre Trust. He worked as an editor and writer for Horwitz Publications and Ure Smith, founding the first magazine in Australia on industrial design, Design Australia, for the Industrial Design Council of Australia. Mr Harvey worked as a senior journalist with the departments of Health and Social Security in Canberra, editing the quarterly journal Health which he founded, and then transferred to Sydney as a Senior Project Officer for the Australia Council, editing the magazine Artforce and producing annual reports. He remained with the Australia Council for eight years, producing publications such as Ozarts, which he co-founded, and The Australia Council: what it is, and what it does. From 1981 he spent ten years as head of the Information and Publications Unit at Macquarie University, from which he retired in 1991. He is presently working on his autobiography, whilst editing a newsletter Score, which he initiated for the alumni of the Sydney Conservatorium High School. He holds a Masters degree in Literature and Public History at the University of Sydney
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