Manseau Reads from Latest Work
Former Department of Religion Administrator Peter Manseau will read from his new book, Vows: The Story of a Priest, a Nun, and their Son, at the BU Barnes & Noble on Wednesday, October 19, at 7 PM. Vows tells the true story of Peter’s parents — his father a censured priest of the Archdiocese of Boston; his mother a former teaching sister in Roxbury. Along the way, from the immigrant ghettos of the 1950s, through the turbulent post-Vatican II ’60s, up to and including the recent clergy sexual abuse scandal, Vows also recounts the history of the Catholic Church in America, as lived by a single family. According to Kirkus Reviews, Vows is “an elegant, sonorous story of how faith can turn and bite you clean through, from a son of the bitten.” Publishers Weekly called it: “… Seductively well written, occasionally polemical, Manseau chronicles a son’s attempt to make peace with the mysteries of faith and family.” Click HERE to order from Amazon.com.