Frank O'Connor's "News for the Church"

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This paper explains that, after a careful reading of Frank O'Connor's "News for the Church", it becomes obvious that the moral fiber of the character of the priest is questionable because he uses blasphemy himself and is unable to resist temptation in his life. The author points out that, after the priest understands the real reason for the girl's confession, he gets angry and decides to try to make the girl forget her romantic adventure by turning it into a cynical, disgusting escapade. The paper concludes that the behavior of the young girl who wanted to find out about sex was natural; whereas, the behavior of the priest who got a thrill from making her feel nasty and dirty about it was unnatural because he got his thrill from hurting people.

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"After he understands the real reason for the girl's confession, Father Cassidy gets angry and as "the fighting blood of the Cassidy's" begins to warm him up, he decides to try to make the girl forget her romantic adventure by turning it into a cynical, disgusting escapade. Whatever beauty there was to the experience, he takes away. He digs deep and asks uncomfortable personal questions meant to test his (and her) knowledge about sexual intercourse. His question alarms the girl and makes her shake in her clothes "as if something were biting her." Seems like only the things that ..."

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