Um, what I found though about the Christian Brothers is this: that they were certainly muscular.

He was one of those men who, even in the years of peace, would have advised his congregation that while God may well be honored by the inflexibility of the pious, he might also be honored by the flexibility of the sensible.

And I found both literature and the church very dramatic presences in the world of the 1950s.

But I was also a brat. I used to belong to a gang that went looking for fights with other gangs.

And I think my sexuality was heavily repressed by the church, by the, you know, the design of the mortal sins.

Thomas was my true name but everyone knew me as Mick, except my mother, who knew me as definitely Michael.

Power is when we have every justification to kill, and we don't.