Good Friday People is a profoundly honest and moving book, a book that looks unflinchingly at the reality of suffering. Following the journey of Jesus towards the Cross, Sheila Cassidy encourages us to walk alongside him and alongside her ‘Good Friday people’ – a motley group of saints and sinners mysteriously called to share in the sufferings of Christ.
Some of them are victims of violence like Archbishop Romero and others caught up in oppression in El Savador; Victor Jara who was tortures and killed in Chile; the people of Auschwitz. Others suffer physical illness like Fr. Jimmy Doherty, a priest with multiple sclerosis; David, a boy with a brain tumour, and Suzi Lovergrove, a woman with AIDS.