Revelation

Expanding on the ground-breaking ABC documentary, Walkley award-winning journalists Sarah Ferguson and Tony Jones lay bare the criminal action of priests and brothers within the Catholic Church and show how senior members of the Church did nothing to stop the evil within.

In this powerful, must-read exposé, the formidable Walkley award-winning journalists Sarah Ferguson and Tony Jones have teamed up to expand on the ground-breaking ABC documentary Revelation to lay bare the criminal actions of priests and brothers within the Catholic Church. Following court cases, visiting perpetrators in prison and uncovering secrets the Church has hidden for years, Ferguson and Jones take us on a journey from local Australian parishes to Ireland and all the way to the Vatican to uncover why the Church's most senior power-brokers did nothing to stop the evil within.

This is a book that will have repercussions for perpetrators as it lifts the veil on Australia's worst serial paedophiles. Because of the robes they wore and the positions they held, these men were trusted, welcomed into homes and schools to target our most vulnerable. How did this happen? What drove these men to commit these acts?

Compelling and confronting, these two investigative journalists take us into the heart of darkness to ensure the systems of concealment are shattered and the protection stops. We owe it to all the victims to understand their pain and suffering so that abuse like this never happens again.

About the Author

Sarah Ferguson is an ABC journalist. In the same year that she worked onThe Killing Season, she also wrote and presented Hitting Home, the landmark series on domestic violence. She has presented the ABC's 7.30 and worked as a journalist on Four Corners,, where she won four Walkleys - including the Gold Walkley in 2011 for 'A Bloody Business' - the Melbourne Press Club Gold Quill Award, four Logies for most outstanding public affairs report, as well as the George Munster Award for Independent Journalism and the Queensland Premier's Literary Award.

TONY JONES is one of Australia's most well-known journalists, winning awards including four of Australia's leading journalism awards, the Walkelys. Crikey awarded him 'Outstanding Media Practitioner of the Year' for 'ferocious intelligence, polite calmness, [being a] dogged interrogator, deep political instincts and juggling the running agenda, [and having] a great sense of context.' He presented the ABC's premier current affairs programme Lateline for over a decade before hosting Q&A for 12 years. He has also found time to write two acclaimed thrillers, The Twentieth Man and In Darkness Visible.