Blue Boy in a Black Dress by Terry Rigelhof
Winner of The QSPELL Prize for Non-Fiction in 1996
The award-winning memoir that Mark Abley called “a Canadian classic,” A Blue Boy in a Black Dress is a college teacher’s look back on the five years he spent in seminaries studying to be a Catholic priest in the 1960s (and further, to the childhood that led to seminary doors). But it’s also a look forward to the fate of organised religion in the twenty-first century. Writing in The Globe and Mail, Hugo Meynell noted: “All in all, this is an amazing book, shrewd, sensitive, and beautifully written. I hope that it will be widely read by those who wonder what the religious future will bring. One may perhaps still hold, in spite of the author, that there is something worth retaining under all the malpractice, hypocrisy, and power-mongering which continue to disfigure the Roman Catholic Church, but to go on believing so certainly requires the theological virtues of faith, hope, and charity.”
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