And I was very interested in the priesthood.Thomas KeneallyTheWorldMotivation.comTry New ThemeDownloadSharePin ItCopied to clipboard!“And I was very interested in the priesthood.
“My brother arrived some months after my father left. Um, and he ah, was thus eight years younger than me and it was um, you know, it was such a time that my mother probably had people wondering was it his.”Thomas KeneallyArrived
“Australia integrated the - brought on the ships and unleashed in the society the dogs of sectarianism, which had existed in other places - in Glasgow, in Liverpool and of course in Ireland, north and south.”
“So nonetheless given the importance that was placed on sport in Australia, I wanted to be part of that scene, particularly since I had felt very strongly in my early schooling being marginalised even in the Catholic school.”Thomas KeneallyAustralia
“You know, so I was a weird eccentric kid but I did believe in the power of the word and of the word being made flesh I suppose, which again I suppose came from my temperament as well as my upbringing.”Thomas KeneallyEccentric
“So I was very close to ordination. I was delighted to be ordained a deacon, which is the last step between, before becoming a priest. But then it all fell apart.”Thomas KeneallyApart