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	washingtonpost.com: Comic Belief
		Tony Hendra has had a fine career as a comedian, working with John Cleese and Graham Chapman; he was editor in chief of Spy magazine and an original editor of National Lampoon.
		Really, it's about Tony Hendra and how he turned out to be the way he is. Hendra's parents had a mixed marriage, religiously speaking; his mother was a fairly standard devout Catholic, his father a secular craftsman who made not a very good living constructing stained-glass windows.
		Little Tony Hendra did some puny shoplifting, sneaked away from school to go to the movies, and then, when he was 14, did what many 14-year-old boys do if they get lucky: He found himself a female who allowed him (and herself) some sexual experimentation.
	www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn/A43981-2004May20?language=printer (654 words)

	Strand Bookstore: Father Joe; by Tony Hendra (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		From the publisher Tony Hendra, a writer and satirist who was one of the geniuses behind THIS IS SPINAL TAP, has written a surprising book about his spiritual journey toward God, in the form of a tribute to the Rev. Joseph Warrilow, a Benedictine monk who lives in a monastery on the Isle of Wight.
		Hendra met "Father Joe" when at 14, caught in a highly compromising situation with a married woman, he was forced to seek spiritual guidance.
		Hendra's appreciation for their long friendship is grounded in Father Joe's humane tolerance for what is usually called "sin," and his understanding that human interaction should be based on love and mutual respect--and that only when those are lacking does the possibility of sin arise.
	www.strandbooks.com /profile?isbn=1400061849 (465 words)

	OpinionJournal - Taste
		Hendra himself has been getting sharp, humorous points across for decades--as an original editor at National Lampoon magazine, a cast member of the movie "This Is Spinal Tap," editor in chief of Spy magazine, and author of a history of modern American satire ("Going Too Far").
		Caught in dalliance with a neighbor's wife, young Hendra was taken for religious discipline to an extraordinary Benedictine father on the Isle of Wight.
		Hendra never had to hide any aspect of himself from his priestly friend, he tells me. "That was one of the great things about Joe: He was endlessly funny.
	www.opinionjournal.com /taste?id=110005140 (851 words)

	The New York Times > Books > Daughter Says Father's Confessional Book Didn't Confess His Molestation of ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Hendra, a noted satirist, appears unstinting in his contrition, exhuming his recurrent failings as a husband and father and his wayward indulgences in alcohol and drugs.
		Hendra authorized a reporter to talk to two therapists who treated her, as well as three friends in whom she confided, and her husband and mother.
		Hendra first met Father Joe when he was taken to the monastery for spiritual discipline after being caught in the nascent stages of an affair with a married woman when he was 14.
	www.nytimes.com /2004/07/01/books/01BOOK.html?ex=1246420800&en=2359169dc9789ee5&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland (709 words)

	The Story of a Satirical Soul: Tony Hendra's 'Father Joe', by Thomas D. Sullivan
		Tony Hendra's friendship with Father Joe started with an earlier friendship with Ben and Lily, a Catholic married couple in his native Hertfordshire, England.
		Hendra is converted by someone who manifestly loves him and will continue to do so in spite of this sin or others.
		Hendra live his vocation as a husband to his wife, a true father to his children, as a man with his work (which wasn't his first choice—a helpful example to many of us).
	www.godspy.com /reviews/The-Story-of-a-Satirical-Soul-Tony-Hendras-Father-Joe.cfm (2017 words)

	Daily Home - Father Joe: The Man Who Saved My Soul by Tony Hendra: a review by Marianne Moates (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		In the cold, bare monastery Tony heard the Gregorian chanting of the monks, saw their diligence at work and prayer, and found Father Joe, the man he credits with saving his soul.
		Rather than looking for ways to punish the wayward Tony, Father Joe listened to a boy who felt he had committed an unforgivable sin, lost his faith, and was a horrible person.
		Tony lived for visits to the quiet halls of the monastery, the chanting, and walks with Father Joe.
	www.dailyhome.com /lifestyle/2004/dh-living-0713-0-4g12q5839.htm (536 words)

	Nexus Review of the Week
		Father Joe is Tony Hendra’s inspiring true story of finding faith, friendship, and family through the decades-long influence of a surpassingly wise Benedictine monk named Father Joseph Warrillow.
		"Tony Hendra has accomplished one hell of a lot in his life, and doubtless has many achievements ahead of him, but this memoir of his spiritual journey, and the monk who guided it, will almost certainly be his masterpiece."
		TONY HENDRA attended Cambridge University, where he performed frequently with friends and future Monty Pythons John Cleese and Graham Chapman.
	www.nexusreviews.org /fatherjoe.htm (566 words)

	Amazon.com: Father Joe: The Man Who Saved My Soul: Books: Tony Hendra (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		As Hendra reveals in this graceful, humorous tale, Father Joe acted not only as a confessor, but also as a friend and as the guiding spirit of Hendra's life (the author is now married with three children).
		Hendra gives an AMAZING narration, and by the story's end, you really believe that it is Father Joe stuttering the lines in his rich English accent.
		Hendra has run the gamut of spritiual conditions: aspiring monk, exuberant pagan, guilt ridden lapsed-Catholic, suicidal pagan, spiritual dreamer, cynic, re-aspiring monk...Though it all, the one constant was this shy, soft-spoken monk, Father Joe, a humble man who carries the spirit of God so profoundly that it goes almost unnoticed.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1400061849?v=glance (2512 words)

	Books: Daughter accuses Hendra of sex abuse, says confessional bestseller not whole story
		Jessica Hendra said her father molested her once when she was 7 -- which he blamed the next morning on a drug or alcohol-induced haze -- and molested her again, in the shower, on two occasions when she was 9 or 10.
		Three of Jessica Hendra’s friends, two therapists who treated her, her mother Judith and her husband Kurt Fuller told the Times reporter that Jessica Hendra had told them about the abuse at different points in her life, from age 12 on, and that she was credible.
		Tony Hendra, 62, repeatedly and “categorically” denied the allegations.
	www.natcath.com /NCR_Online/archives2/2004c/073004/073004t.htm (557 words)

	Books at Book Clubs \| Father Joe by Tony Hendra
		Hendra writes that in Europe the Benedictine tradition is “so deep you never heard the stone touch bottom” (p.
		Hendra and Father Joe discuss Macbethand depictions of Christ’s Passion and Crucifixion, noting that evil acts and people often seem to inspire writers and artists to great art (p.
		Hendra later describes Father Joe as “a commonsense saint, a saint of what could be done, not what should be done, a practical saint, a saint of imperfection” (p.
	www.bookclubs.ca /catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780812972344&view=rg (799 words)

	USATODAY.com - This 'Messiah' has few redeeming qualities (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Hendra's novel is intended to combine both his writing personas.
		Hendra's Jesus shuns all the damage done in his name since his last visit: the Crusades, the obsession with Armageddon, the failure to care for the poor.
		Hendra's digs are quite funny, but they peter out as the religious drama takes center stage.
	www.usatoday.com /life/books/reviews/2006-04-12-messiah-morris-avenue_x.htm (460 words)

	BookkooB : Father Joe - Tony Hendra : Compare Book Prices
		Hendra's prose is frequently beautiful; as one commentator observes, bordering on the mystical in places.
		Tony Hendra is to be congratulated, and thanked, for sharing Father Joe with his readers.
		The story is about Hendra and Father Joe, but has a hidden reflection on those readers that go through the same private internal war of their own.
	www.bookkoob.co.uk /book/0812972341.htm (847 words)

	Lessons from the Hendra Affair
		But the new level of notoriety had its dark side for Hendra, to say the least: it prompted his adult daughter Jessica to tell the Times that Hendra's spiritual journey had included sexually molesting her when she was a little girl.
		Jessica Hendra is the alleged victim here, but she is a victimizer as well.
		The timing of her revelation follows in the tradition of Naomi Wolf (http://ethicsscoreboard.com/list/wolf.html) and Anita Hill, designed to circumvent fair processes of inquiry and justice to exact retribution and to cause grievous harm to another through public ambush.
	www.ethicsscoreboard.com /list/hendra.html (715 words)

	Catholic Information Center (CIC) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Hearing Tony Hendra’s voice immediately reminded me of scenes from what has to be the most excruciatingly merciless satire ever filmed, This Is Spinal Tap, a spoof on an early eighties rock group in which Hendra plays the band’s manager with affected, serial aplomb.
		Hendra is even daffy enough to describe in the same sentence Pope John Paul II and Mikhail Gorbachev, calling them both “men of peace”.
		Tony Hendra clearly would agree with Sullivan, for his sense of God’s mercy—genuine as it seems to be—has little to do with moral truth outside of our own devising.
	www.cicdc.org /resources/resources.cfm?task=ind&id=13 (1143 words)

	Do Old Scandals Die Hard? Tony Hendra Preps For His Next Chapter - 4/4/2006 - Publishers Weekly (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		As Father Joe was climbing the charts, Hendra's then 39-year-old daughter, Jessica, told a New York Times reporter that the onetime National Lampoon editor had abused her sexually as a child.
		With Hendra scheduled to talk to select members of the press, tomorrow it's Don Imus (who heavily championed Father Joe) and he'll also speak to someone at the New York Post, McKinney said her author would not be discussing his daughter's claims (which he has always denied).
		While Jessica Hendra told PW that she has no plans to make any statements about Messiah—she said she would have come forward again if her father had published another non-fiction book—it seems unlikely that media coverage of this title won't also make mention of the post-Father Joe uproar.
	www.publishersweekly.com /article/CA6321630.html?display=breaking (600 words)

	'How to Cook Your Daughter': Father Tony - New York Times
		Jessica Hendra's memoir, "How to Cook Your Daughter," written with Blake Morrison, a journalist, provides details of her father's behavior and character that she asserts he omitted from "Father Joe." But rather than being a systematic refutation of his confessional, it is an exorcism from which the reader emerges shaken and aghast.
		Hendra père accuses himself of largely ignoring his first family (he has two children from a previous marriage, which ended in divorce, and three children from his current marriage), while his daughter's book portrays him as far too ominously present, even when he disappears for days at a time.
		The Hendra family values depicted in "How to Cook Your Daughter" include mental cruelty, explosive rages and exposure to danger (speeding drunk through the Holland Tunnel, leaving cocaine in the refrigerator), as well as orgiastic drug binges and full frontal nudity with his Lampoon cronies.
	www.nytimes.com /2005/10/30/books/review/30safer.html?ex=1288324800&en=f394e66e0c71d445&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss (862 words)

	Book Reviews - Father Joe by Tony Hendra
		At age 14, Tony Hendra was having an affair with a married woman when her husband dragged him off to see a Benedectine monk on the Isle of Wight, Father Joe.
		Tony Hendra became a successful humorist and satirist (he was one of the founders of National Lampoon) and drifted away from the church into a lifestyle of sex and drugs.
		Father Joe's calm demeanor and wisdom helped bring Hendra back to the church and to an understanding that the only sin was one of selfishness.
	www.reviewsofbooks.com /father_joe (214 words)

	Commonweal - A review of religion, politics and culture
		Hendra spent many of those years boozing and snorting—“the crazed coke-and-drinking days,” he calls them.
		Hendra is a gifted writer, and this is a wonderfully composed, touching, humorous, and surprisingly intellectual volume.
		Tony reads Meister Eckhart on the Trinity: “When God laughs at the soul and the soul laughs back at God, the persons of the Trinity are begotten.
	www.commonwealmagazine.org /article.php?id_article=945 (1197 words)

	FT December 2004: Books in Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Indeed, while Hendra is relieved that he isn’t on the receiving end of a moralistic sensibility, he ultimately goes off to indulge in it in his own way.
		Hendra counters with the monastic concept of contemptus mundi, which he translates as “contempt for the world.” But the monk corrects him: contempt “would imply arrogance, superiority, pride....
		For all of Hendra’s thoughtful reflection on issues as vast as the nature of faith and the ethical implications of satire, this reader, for one, felt that there were too many missed opportunities in this book—opportunities to make vital connections.
	www.firstthings.com /ftissues/ft0412/reviews/wolfe.htm (1768 words)

	village voice > news > The Essay by Davis Sweet
		So when my friend Tony Hendra's book Father Joe: The Man Who Saved My Soul was released to near-universal praise May 18, I didn't watch the numbers from Book Sense and BookScan, the all-seeing archangels of the bookselling world.
		Tony's 39-year-old daughter Jessica had written to the Times weeks before, alleging he had molested her when she was a child, a charge Tony categorically denied when ambushed by the Times the day before publication of Kleinfield's article.
		The impetus for Jessica Hendra's revelation to the Times was that the sins at the center of her accusations weren't included in Father Joe.
	www.villagevoice.com /issues/0429/essay.php (1421 words)

	George Carlin with Tony Hendra
		HENDRA: One of may favorite routines, well, I wouldn’t call it a routine actually, it was more like a symphony, was a thing you did a couple of years ago on HBO, about abortion and the death penalty.
		HENDRA: One of the things about that particular routine, and in fact, I’m sure that you are proud of, was that it has actually become the basis of a Supreme Court decision.
		HENDRA: One of the things that intrigues me about this era and this part of your career, was that this was all part of a personal revolution, which many other comedians, and perhaps, many other people – I certainly did – went through.
	www.writersblocpresents.com /archives/carlin/carlin.htm (9873 words)

	MethodX \| Articles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Such is the case with Tony Hendra and Father Joseph Warrilow.
		Tony returns to the old monk, whom he calls “my still center,” whenever he messes up, hurting himself and those he loves in the most creative of ways.
		There are moments when Hendra seems to lose focus, allowing his narrative to stray from his friendship with Father Joe.
	www.upperroom.org /methodx/articles/reviews.asp?act=showitem&item_id=203468&back=157 (729 words)

	www.AndrewSullivan.com - Latest Posts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		It bares details of Hendra's own sexual intimacy with an adult woman while he was fourteen, his years of drug use, sexual abandon, and countless sins over decades.
		Hendra is particularly brutal about his own parenting: "No father could have been more selfish - treating his family like props, possessions, inconveniences, mostly forgetting them completely in his precious mission to save the world through laughter."
		The Times argued in defense of its story that Jessica's "version of her father's past challenges the premise of 'Father Joe': that Tony Hendra found deliverance through faith and atoning for his failings." But that isn't the premise of the book.
	www.andrewsullivan.com /main_article.php?artnum=20040712 (734 words)

	Tony Hendra talks about his bestselling book, 'Father Joe,' and the man behind it -- Beliefnet.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Tony Hendra was the editor of National Lampoon, played the band's manager in "This Is Spinal Tap" and invented the British satire show "Spitting Image," all after giving up his first career: Teen Monk.
		Hendra found Father Joe was unlike any priest he'd ever known, and, deciding he wanted be like Joe, aspired to monasticism.
		His bestselling book, "Father Joe," tells how life took Hendra in other directions, not all of them happy, but all leading back to his confessor, counselor and stabilizing force.
	www.beliefnet.com /story/147/story_14766_1.html (716 words)

	Alleged Molester and Memoirist Tony Hendra Still Gets Blurbs -- New York Magazine
		When Tony Hendra’s memoir, Father Joe, came out in 2004, Adam Gopnik called it “beautifully captured,” and Andrew Sullivan found it “extraordinary, luminescent, profound.” Both are quoted as saying so on the cover of Hendra’s brand-new novel, The Messiah of Morris Avenue.
		But the praise was written before Hendra’s daughter, Jessica, alleged in her memoir, How to Cook Your Daughter, that he’d left out something crucial in his autobiography—she says that he’d molested her.
		(Hendra has always denied the claim.) Gopnik sounded a bit surprised, if not upset, to be included: “No, as it happens, no one did ask me about reusing the blurb.” But Sullivan (pictured), while conceding that quoting from his review is “fair use,” was disturbed.
	www.newyorkmetro.com /news/intelligencer/16474 (241 words)

	Father Joe: The Man Who Saved My Soul specs at MSN Shopping
		Hendra was surprised to meet instead a rotund, knobby-kneed confessor whose thoughtful, open manner changed Hendra's life forever.
		At Cambridge, Hendra discovered a new passion- comedy- and pursued it as ardently as he'd pursued religion.
		Hendra writes well (he spent several years as the head writer at "National Lampoon), chronicling the failure of his first marriage, his descent into substance abuse, his self-hatred and his incessant search for meaning in compelling prose and with clear-eyed honesty.
	shopping.msn.com /specs/shp?itemId=1425807 (280 words)

	Paste Magazine :: Review :: Father Joe: The Man Who Saved My Soul :: by Tony Hendra (Random House) (Page 1)
		Tony Hendra has devoted most of his adult life to biting satire.
		One might expect a memoir about a priest Hendra met as a child to be an indictment; instead, Father Joe is full of wonder and respect, a tale of faith’s resilience in the face of seductive worldliness (to which the author refers in the Latin, contemptus mundi).
		As a precocious 14-year-old, Hendra is taken to Quarr Abbey in the English countryside to resolve the matter of his near-affair with a married woman.
	www.pastemagazine.com /action/article?article_id=904 (293 words)

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