“[Here] a good Catholic father is going out to find his son, who has really chosen a dark path for himself…In that sense, he’s like the good shepard: he’s going out to seek the lost. In another sense, he’s the father of the prodigal son, because his heart remains open…It’s really a test of…his own commitment to give his life for his own children. In other words, the essence of what a father is,” says Michael O’Brien, author of The Father’s Tale.